Well, that was not very good.

This is a movie that feels like it was written by committee with anything resembling a central idea having been diluted to nothing. I could be okay with that if the film, Cary Fukunaga's No Time to Die, Daniel Craig's last outing as the secret agent James Bond, operated on some basic entertaining level, but the committee-like script destroys any sense of structure to the story, creating stops and starts that never feel right while the story itself keeps feeling like its beginning at different points. The emotional connection is contrived and weak which undermines the supposedly emotional ending of the film. This is...a giant mess and one of the worst Bond films. Not the worst, but it's pretty close.

The desire to have all of the Craig films be some giant interconnected puzzle was always a half-hearted effort that started in the previous film, Spectre, and the continuation of the effort here is borderline embarrassing. After an opening showing a young French girl escaping an assassin when he takes pity on her and pulls her out of a frozen lake (taken from a line of dialogue in the previous film), we get Bond (Craig) and Madeleine Swann (Lea Seydoux), the girl from the last movie, enjoying time together in Italy. They are in love, and the movie spends very little time trying to convince us before Madeleine is telling Bond that they will never be happy together as long as Bond is still obsessing over Vesper Lynd. I mean...what? If we're going to treat these five movies as one long story, then we have to consider the idea that Bond's dismissal of Lynd's death at the end of Casino Royale was final, and...um...that his letting go of his rage at her death at the end of Quantum of Solace was also final. She hadn't been mentioned in Skyfall (which felt like it happened years, maybe even more than a decade, after Quantum ended) and only mentioned in a single line of dialogue in Spectre by someone else. This is the beginning of an effort to have Craig's Bond say goodbye to the franchise as a whole, and it quite simply does not work.

At Lynd's grave, Bond is attacked by Spectre, and he blames Madeleine. When they get away, he puts her on a train and promises to never see her again before we get our title sequence and a jump ahead by five years. Why this jump of five years? To give Bond a child is why. He doesn't know about it yet, though. In the meantime he's retired, and his 007 moniker has been passed on by M (Ralph Fiennes) to Nomi (Lashana Lynch). When a mysterious figure organizes a raid on a top-secret British biolab and steals a DNA-targeting weapon and defected Russian scientist (David Dencik), the uncooperative CIA and MI6 are both on the trail that starts in Santiago, Cuba. The American agent Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) invites Bond along on the mission, and the movie missteps heavily.

With this being the Bond farewell tour, he's saying goodbye to every major figure in the franchise including Leiter. So, with whom does Bond spend most of his Cuba time with? Paloma (Ana de Armas), a new secret agent who looks great in a slinky dress, kicks some butt, and then vanishes from the movie completely. This mission should have been done with Leiter, so they could have had one final hurrah before Leiter dies. Instead, it's with a throwaway character who doesn't matter. The other problem with this scene is that it's the closing of the chapter on SPECTRE as an organization with all of members showing up to a birthday bash for Ernst Blofeld (Christoph Waltz) who is in a maximum security prison in London and observing the events through a bionic eye that he can see through...somehow. I dunno. It doesn't matter. This movie is stupid. The larger problem is that since SPECTRE is not actually the antagonist of this film, dedicating a large set piece to them after a large set piece that sets them up as the villain. This movie is just ambling from one sequence to the next without any real clear narrative drive.

Leiter is betrayed, Bond loses the scientist, and Bond goes back home to London to visit MI6 and M as a visitor. It's here where we learn that M is behind the entire project of the DNA weapon that the movie feels like it's actually beginning, more than an hour into the film. Bond must get in to talk to Blofeld to figure out what may be happening, who may be behind it all, and yet Blofeld will only talk to his therapist, Madeleine. So, our hero and his lady meet once again and they're distant and borderline antagonistic towards each other. Yeah, this is a great love story.

Madeleine, though, has been roped into the plot of Safin (Rami Malek) by using a perfume laced with the DNA nanobots designed to kill Blofeld, which Bond touches, and then infects Blofeld with in their meeting. Again...Blofeld is not the antagonist to this movie, and we get an extended sequence, almost halfway through this interminable 170 minutes, where he ends up dying while giving up the littlest bit of information that Madeleine and Safin are connected, information that Madeleine has almost told Bond herself before. This is just another entry in the farewell tour occupying screen time, and it barely makes any sense.

Madeleine flees to her mother's old house in Scandinavia with Bond in pursuit where he meets his daughter whom Madeleine insists is not his. After a quick profession of deep love between the two, they're found out and must flee. The effort is protracted and ultimately pointless when Safin captures both Madeleine and the girl, fleeing to his island base.

I think it's easy to see the weird mix that's going on here in terms of tone, in addition to all the structural and thematic issues at play. The movie is taking some of the more ridiculous elements of the franchise (bionic eyes, super cars, island hideouts) and telling them in the most mundane manner to match with the more sober assessment of Bond's ending. It's such an odd combination that when Bond uses his EMP watch to blow up the bionic eye in the head of the bad guy he's choking and he lets out a bon mot, it's just some of the most bizarre stuff in the movie. I think it's pretty obvious that Barbara Broccoli has a huge soft spot for the Moore era films, and she ultimately has to push it in whether it fits or not. Or maybe it's a Fukunaga thing, I don't know. And that points to the problem of lack of authorial intent here. The movie's all over the place.

Paloma was written in, not by the film's lead screenwriter, but by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (presumably at Craig's insistence) in order to add more kickass female whether it fit or not. It ultimately doesn't because it interrupts the overall point of the whole sequence, Bond saying goodbye to Felix. Nomi feels like a sop to some slice of the audience that wants a female James Bond, but she's ultimately pointless, contributing shockingly little to the movement of the plot or advancement of any thematic ideas despite being in about half the film. Her big moment is when she kicks a physically unimposing man into a vat of acid and has a quip that plays on the movie's title. He doesn't matter by that point in the film, and if he had simply disappeared no one would have complained. Instead, though, they give his death to Nomi. The whole subplot with SPECTRE, including Blofeld, is the sort of thing that gets resolved in a movie's first act to quickly establish the danger of the new bad guy, and instead it takes up half the film.

And then there's Safin. Malek isn't really bad as Safin, but he's largely unremarkable. I remember reading an interview with Fukunaga that said that he and Malek worked really hard to make him as bland as possible, I mean, they worked really hard to make sure he had an accent that couldn't be tied to any country. Really, it amounts to Malek whispering through pretty much all of his lines, and they're almost all pretentious nonsense. He's introduced at about the halfway mark and doesn't actually get real screentime until the final act is spooling up. His big sit down with Bond is filled with stuff about how they're two sides of the same coin, and yet no effort has been made to actually establish that in any way. It's supposedly, I have to guess here, because they both kill people, the laziest of ways to try and draw this contrast. The only time in the franchise this worked was with The Man with the Golden Gun, and the antagonist actually was an alternate version of Bond, another one on one killer. It's also so late in the film to bring up this kind of idea considering the mess of stuff that's come before that it can't really stick any landing, especially when it has nothing to do with anything that's come before.

This movie is a disaster. There's no one responsible for the narrative, and what ends up happening is that, much like in the Lethal Weapon sequels, the script becomes about pleasing different stakeholders rather than telling an interesting story. The big finale is built on this idea of emotional connection that the movie only half-heartedly tries to accomplish and fails at that. A random death for Bond would have probably worked better.

There are moments here are there that work, though. There's a cool little bit in the finale when Bond turns around quickly to shoot someone behind him that mimics that gun barrel bit from the openings. The action is generally well done, it just happens randomly and without any real impact. Ana de Armas is fun as Paloma despite the general pointlessness of her character. Jamaica looks pretty. Hans Zimmer's score is pretty vigorous. That's honestly about it, though.

I liked Craig's tenure as Bond, but this is honestly a Bond adventure I never need to see again.

And so, after endless delays and endless fanfare, we finally have Daniel Craig's final Bond outing. And after all that, the end result is merely average. I enjoyed it, to a degree, but I can tell it's not one that will particularly stand up to repeat viewing. It's overlong, way overlong, with a very slim plot and a story that feels copied from earlier instalments almost scene-for-scene at times. The action is too much about the stunts and CGI and not enough about the suspense or danger, and the whole thing simply goes through the motions. Rami Malek is far too sympathetic to make a good bad guy, and the main problem lies in employing the same two screenwriters for the past 20+ years. No wonder it feels stale. How about giving somebody else a chance?

I have been a longtime fan of James Bond films. One of my earliest memories of seeing a movie for the first time was GOLDFINGER when it was released. I didn't always see the new films as they were released but if I could I was there ready to be thrilled at the latest exploit. I've enjoyed each of the actors who have played Bond for various reasons. I thought the latest incarnation by Daniel Craig was superb. Until NO TIME TO DIE.

The film starts in the past as a young Madeline Swann witnesses the murder of her mother by Lyutsifer Safin. In spite of the fact that she shoots him he rescues her after she falls through the ice of a nearby frozen lake.

Fast forward to the present. After having captured Blofeld in the previous film Bond (Craig) and Madeline (Lea Seydoux) are in Matera. Bond leaves her in the hotel to visit the gravesite of Vesper Lynd where he is attacked by two assassins. Rushing back to the hotel he finds Madeline packed and ready to leave. Thinking she has betrayed him he leaves everything behind.

Another time jump, this time 5 years in the future and Bond has retired from service, living in Jamaica. An old face pops up in the form of CIA agent Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright). Leiter is asking for help in finding Valdo Orbuchev, an MI6 researcher. Bond declines but is later visited by Nomi (Lashana Lynch), his successor as the new 007. She explains to Bond that Orbuchev has created a bioweapon made of nanobots. These nanobots inject a virus but only intended for a singular DNA pattern. With this new knowledge, Bond agrees to help.

Going to Cuba both Bond and Leiter work their way into a secret meeting of Spectre. Even though he's in prison Blofeld is in touch with this gathering remotely. He orders the nanobots mist to be sprayed on Bond but instead of Bond falling all the members of Spectre begin to drop like flies. Blofeld has had Orbuchev reprogram the nanobots to do so. In an effort to stop the bad guys Leiter is killed and Bond sets out for revenge.

A meeting between Blofeld and Bond is set up in prison. Also on hand is Madeline who has been coerced to have the nanobots placed in her system to kill Blofeld. She touches Bonds hand before he sees Blofeld passing the nanobots onto him. During their meeting Blofeld let's Bond know that he was responsible for the attack at Vesper's grave, not Madeline. Angered Bond grabs him and thus passes on the nanobots killing him.

There is so much more story to go on from here involving Bond discovering he and Madeline had a daughter together to finding out the plan laid down by Safin. It is rather convoluted and better experienced than read about if you are a Bond fan. But it is also part of what makes this one of the worst Bond films made.

Don't get me wrong, even a bad Bond film is a good movie. But in knowing that this was going to be the final film with Craig in the lead role they've pulled out all the stops. At 163 minutes the film is way too heavy on plot and less on action. Yes, the stunt work, car chases and fight sequences are there but more time is spent discussing Bond's emotions and that is just not Bond. At least it hasn't been in the 24 films prior to this one. He's lost a wife in one film, another woman who would have married him and more and he's never felt like a character you were going to sit down and wallow in self-pity crying. This is the new woke Bond and in making him this they may have killed the franchise.

But there is one more major item that may have killed the franchise even more so. If you aren't aware stop reading this column now. Seriously stop reading if you don't know the end. Reader be warned. The end of this film has Bond killed. No last minute escape, no secret rendezvous, 100% killed dead. Which makes one wonder what happens now? Will we see the old Bond in earlier adventures with a new young actor? Or will they go full woke and have Nomi as the new 007? Only time will tell.

The acting is great, the stunts amazing and the photography stunning. But in the end the movie is far too long and feels more like a melodrama than an action flick. And that's what Bond films have always been. Others have noted since the release of the film that it may have gone too woke and have killed off the franchise for good. Who knows?

Being a completist on the series I did buy it. I'll give it another watch. Maybe my feelings will calm a bit with a second viewing. I certainly hope so.

Hollywood is dying a self induced slow death and it is too blind to see it.

The real bond is in retirement but still kicks more ass than his political correct token black replacement. She has no charm, sofistication, or talent and struts like an arrogant dude with attitude.

If I learned one thing from this movie, it is that the new bond should be replaced by a much more appealing, talented, sexy and overall entertaining character such as Paloma. As the real bond said to her "you were excellent"

If the bond franchise goes down this pc way then this is the last for me.

Now I need to watch married with children to make me forget all this pc rubbish and remain normal.

After waiting for two years, finally the newest James Bond is released in theatres, and it is a mess of a film. The first 20 minutes are good, the action is adrenalinic, there are good stunts, and the tension builds up. After the Billie Eilish song, the movie crumbles completely.

The story is too convoluted and they went full science fiction, introducing a highly unbelievable mass murder weapon that does not make any sense. There are way too many characters. Why did they introduce a second 007 that does not add anything to the story? She doesn't contribute in any way to the main objective accomplishment, and the movie wouldn't be any different without her. She is basically an empty shell that is used as a filler. For sure not up to the legacy that this number has. If this is the successor of James Bond, MI6 is already doomed. Paloma, played by Ana De Armas, is a newly trained and definitely too anxious agent for the job. She appears for like 15 minutes where she kicks asses. Visually appealing scene but then, we do not get to see her anymore, so what was even the point? Q was always the genius of the group, plenty of crazy inventions up to his sleeves. In this movie they decided to give him more screen time, which is a wonderful idea, but unfortunately the actor did not manage to give any kind of depth to the character. The evil side is not better. Safir is so cliché and predictable. He cannot transmit any sense of menace. He seems more a spoiled kid that wants to destroy the world for egoistic reasons, a trope seen too many times. Rami Malek is such a talented actor, but in this case he was just disappointing. I want to believe that part of the fault is on the script, which in general was weak and poorly written. Ash, the right hand of Lyutsifer, is just another stupid character that was too easy to beat. Honestly James here played on easy mode, because bad guys are all extremely dumb.

The very first action sequence at the beginning is amazing. I saw a lot of dedication and stunts were very well coordinated. Extremely entertaining and compelling. Then, the movie became some kind of John Wick spinoff, full of explosions and shootouts. James Bond is a spy, he is supposed to investigate, infiltrate subtly in the criminal organization and dismantle it from the inside. But because in previous movies he basically blew his identity up, and everyone in and outside Spectre knows who he is, what is even the point of going stealthy? So let's blow up entire places and shoot mindlessly. Bond is just a one man army now.

The movie is almost three hours long and it is so watered down by useless dialogues that overexpose the plot. There are too many romantic scenes between the couple Bond-Madeleine. At some point, I was wondering if I was watching a spy story, or a rom com. Of course, like most mainstream movies nowadays, there is a lot of forced comedy that is not even funny. I mean, there are a few decent jokes, but nothing worth noticing. "No Time to Die" is definitely a huge downgrade to the whole franchise. Either creators stop doing the series, or they reboot it, by taking inspiration from the older movies.

A) Malek main villain, completly wasted with so little development of his evilness; and wasted due to the mix of two villians and mixing nano-bot-DNA science with home-gardening, just to give the sense of old-villian look of Bond films, as if it were the volcano of "You Only Live Twice"...but now just seeming out of phase.

B)Ana de Armas plot in Cuba, a film into a film, mixing light comedy with shooting around seriously and killing people with no sense of realism nor any drama.

C)Lashana Lynch, Nomi. The new 007. Just praying that they are not trying to force this woman into the new bond era as the principal character. This will be a plain thievery of the bond protagonist born in the novels and portrayed in the movies. Besides, the character is not fun or engaiging at all.

D) Again, the new fashion of Hollywood, kill loved old figures; kill Luke, kill Han Solo, kill Leia and now Bond. What's next? Ethan Hunt? Harry Potter? Indiana Jones? Buzz Lightyear?

E) Familiy drama. Please, just too much. I think the producers want to do films for everyone and then, obviously, the plot becomes too long, inconsistent and cheesy, using different styles forcefully. This used to be a spy movie with thriller, action and exotic places, good looking bad girls falling in love and greater-than-life villians. Now is a complete mess of this but full of different patches, old and new patches.

D) I do not like this new version of Q. A modern jerk with hard plastic glasses but somewhat always joking; he remembered me of Flash in the justice league, this kind of annoying characters. It makes the film much trivial, as much of the other characters do too. There is no sense of veracity along the way.

F) Chase_cars...well, mixed feelings. The scene with the land rovers in Norway too ficticious and simple at the same time. The italian part far better, also with logical impossibles but reflecting better the bond spirit, which is absent for almost the rest of the film.

G) They are imitating all along, not giving a continuity to the old Bond spirit in modern days, and the new things which are added are completly not bond aurea, style, spirit, etc . You cannot pretend that the vodka and the martini, and some gadget in the car is enough and then do what you please in another completly different way for the rest of the film.

H) The M part is just disgusting. It seems that Ralph Fiennes is controlling all the intelligence service from his little office and from a telephone box.

I dont get how people liked this movie so much?!! By far the worst Bond movie ever produced. Just a collection of cliche scenes, an incomprehensible story line and overall completely boring. The worst of the movie was the new 007 Lashana Lynch, just terrible. It's long, has a very boring song, was a very boring movie, and the ending was TERRIBLE. It is the worst Bond movie ever made, and I've seen Die Another Day and A View to a Kill peeps. This movie is blasphemy..You can't have a woman as 007, keep politics out of our entertainment!!! Tired of it and won't support movies with garbage "wokeness". Daniel Craig All he does is resign every 5 minutes cos he's fallen in love, some Bond, pathetic! Anyway this movie is wrong! It's just another woke movie that I have No Time To See.

Inane story. Loud music track. Mediocre acting. Bond dies at the end and no one who watched this stinker could possibly care. Hard to believe it took several people to write the screenplay.

I'm going to rant about this movie. The best this movie gets is okay. And that's after a half an hour when the story finally starts. And even then it's old and gives us nothing really new. The idea of a Bond family is good. But like everything in this movie, they screw up their good ideas. Bond shooting Safin in cold blood was great and satisfying after he should have done that in Spectre to Blofeld. Even though the island was going to blow up, but still cool to see it. And when he rolled the car over on the CIA guy.

The opening? Then the other opening? So long. I actually thought it was a dream scene for a while. And Safin is clearly the same age as Madeleine. And the mask? These scenes were painfully long. For the most part the movie doesn't drag like the first half an hour. Except for the Russian guys intro? What? Having Bond retired was dumb. Having him get rid of Madeleine was dumb. And were we supposed to think that wasn't his daughter for one second?

Safin. The worst bad guy. I have no idea what his deal was. And his bio/nano technology was so stupid. It wasn't explained very well and it didn't feel very threatening. Like at the end when he hits Bond's face was visually so stupid. He was so annoying and not threatening.

The other 007 wasn't funny like she was supposed to be. And that whole back and forth was dumb. And her setting up her own one liner aka the title? What was that all about? The actress was fine. It was too self aware as a Bond movie and having little references to itself. Like when he shoots at the tunnel to reflect the opening. Or when he awkwardly has to say Bond, James Bond at MI6. There were others but I can't remember them all.

Blofeld's cyborg eye thing was how he was talking to the outside world? They didn't check that? And this technology exist?

Bond's death? Like he had to die for that reason? He couldn't touch his girlfriend who he hadn't seen in 5 years or the daughter he just found out about so he didn't want to live anymore? He took himself out of their life when he could have had a normal relationship with them? This was not worthy of killing Bond. He didn't want to see if they could find a cure or whatever? That was so stupid. It's way easier to kill off somebody then to make them get through the bad stuff. You have to get creative. Killing them off is easy. Notice how they did it to three main characters? Not that it added anything, it's just dramatic.

And they relied way too much on bad CG for the action. I have no problem with CG. I only have a problem with bad CG. And this was very noticable. Distractingly. And another thing I normally don't notice but did a lot in this was when the good guys get shot at by a machine gun from two feet away and every bullet misses them. It happened a lot in this.

Cary Joji Fukunaga needs to get his head out of his ass. He thinks he's way better than he actually is. If he wasn't so pretentious he would have realized that every frame he shot wasn't precious and could be cut. And he had all this extra time to tighten up his movie but he thought he got it perfect.

This really reminded me of Dark Knight Rises. It takes place years after the last one. The main character comes out of retirement, then gets "blown up," and there's a Russian who is the only one who knows how to use this technology.

Ana de Armas was the best part. Only in it for a bit unfortunately. I wasn't sure if she'd be able to handle the action because she's so cute and dainty. But she does! She's good with the guns and the hand to hand fights. She has a killer kick!

Farewell to Daniel Craig. He did very well, just like all the Bond's. He'll always stand out because he was in the Bond reboot. Remember when people hated him because he was blonde? Well get ready because whoever gets the job next is going to get the same amount of crap until the movie comes out and then he'll be the best one ever. But Craig and this storyline deserved a much better ending.

I really fear for the future of this fantastic franchise. I hope they don't listen to the internet because it's not real and they don't know what they want. I don't know if they were setting up the "new" 007 to take over, the daughter, I have no idea. I guess we learned one thing from the Bond reboot: it's not a good idea. Ultimately giving Bond a 5 movie arc didn't pay off. Or they just did a bad job. He's not an arc character. He's a series character. He can learn things along the way.

I don't want a Spider-Man situation where we get reintroduced every few years to the beginning of the character. I really hope they just do what Dr. No did and Bond's been doing it for a while. Maybe this series will be like The Dark Knight series where these ones just exist unto their own. They seemed to take their cues from that series anyway so it only makes sense.

But like always, I can't wait to see what happens next.

I have been a Bond fan since I was ten years old. My first James Bond movie was probably "Goldeneye", which I love to this day and consider it as my favorite film of the franchise. Daniel Craig era has never been one that I love. "Casino Royale" and "Skyfall" were both fantastic, but "Quantum of Solace", "Spectre" not very good at all.

To put it mildly, "No Time to Die" was my most anticipated movie of this year. It marks the final apperance of Daniel Craig as Bond and is the longest James Bond movie up to date. I saw this movie yesterday and heard it was controversial for the fans. After seeing "No Time to Die", this is certainly going to be a very divisive film.

Talking about myself: I really wanted to love this film, and at times I did. There are parts of "No Time to Die", which I think are wonderful, but there are also parts of it, which could have been executed far better.

Let's start with the good aspects first, shall we?

. The production values of this movie are fantastic. The cinematography is gorgeous and Billie Ellish's theme fits the story, while having haunting lyrics and music. The acting is pretty good all around. Daniel Craig is the most chatty he has ever been as Bond, but he's still very likable in the role. Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris and Ben Whishaw are great as usual. Lea Seydoux is so much better here than she was in "Spectre". Jeffrey Wright and Christoph Waltz are fun for what there are in. Rami Malek is creepy enough as Safin, but he is definitely not the best villain of the franchise. Ana De Armas though gives an amazing performance. She felt such a breath of fresh air in this movie, while kicking ass for only 10 minutes....

. The first hour of "No Time to Die" is compelling enough. The action scenes in Italy and Cuba, though the chase in the woods and the climax on Saffin's island are solid too, especially stand out.

. There are moments, where the humor does land and throwbacks to other Bond films like "For Your Eyes Only", where James Bond pushes a car on the henchman, were clever. The story definitely leaves an emotional impact on the audience with the choice of music and themes of family-turns out Bond and Madeline have a daughter Mathilde, which is not a bad idea, just convinient for the story :)

But let's get into my negatives, because this movie was disappointing for me. There are parts, like I said, which are fantastic, and that's what makes a couple choices of the story so frustrating for me.

. The movie is agreed unbalanced and feels too long at times. There were times, where I thought the narrative got a bit too melodramatic with the relationship problems between Swan and Bond. The deaths of Felix, but especially Blofeld's death feel crammed into the story having no impact on anyone, just like the character of Nomi, who is underdeveloped at best (even though the actress is very good).

. The humor is not always spot on and does get a bit cringe-worthy at times. One can tell that they were trying to make great ending to Daniel Craig's Bond by giving him the most dialogue and one-liners, but Craig's James Bond feels out of character for a good portion of the film.

. The biggest issue for me was indeed the last third of the film. First, the villain's plan to destroy the world feels forced and out of nowhere. I can understand why he killed all agents of Spectre, but brutally murdering an Europe full of people made no sense to me.

Second problem regards the fact that Bond dies in this movie. There are several issues with this ending. 1) Even though it fits the movie, I think it was Craig himself, who said that this movie was about family, this movie could have ended with Daniel Craig's 007, after being poisoned and escaping the island watching his family from a safe distance or like Calvin Dyson said having Q to develop an antidote for Bond. James Bond faking his own death to protect his loved ones makes more sense to me than his death. 2) This ending does not feel earned. Yes, it's a shock, but one that felt extremly rushed. I agree with Calvin Dyson that there is no need for urgency to shoot those missiles, yes the ships are coming, but that was not a very clever way to create urgency at all. This ending in my humble opinion just misses the point that it's trying to make about Bond and his family. I respect Craig and the writing team for making that bold decision, but the ending felt (after thinking about it) that it wasn't Bond, who was done with everything, it was Daniel, who just wanted to insure the audience that this was his last Bond film. The ending also raises questions of how are they going to continue the Bond franchise. Are they going to do a reboot of a reboot? That would be quite silly in my mind.

Overall, there should be no time to watch anything like this, because it left a very depressive feeling, which a James Bond film shouldn't leave. "No Time to Die" could have been a smart, fun Bond movie, but instead it was okay at best.

5/10 HK.

Bond films have always been made to a specific formula. Here it is.

A suave but ruthless British secret service agent, sent on the trail of some megalomaniacal arch villain intent on world domination usually found in a secret elaborate lair situated in some exotic location.

He must have a Walther PPK tucked under his Saville Row dinner jacket as he plays Baccaret at an upmarket casino over a few vodka martini's (shaken NOT stirred of course)

We want exciting high speed chases..we don't really give a toss whether it's a car chase, a speed boat chase, a motorcycle chase or a ski chase..just get 'em in and make 'em fast.

We want impressive gadgets for him to play with along the way and the more buttons, switches and surprise weapons they can pack into his latest car the better.

We want our Bond to be provided with a bevvy of hot beautiful women to shag (at least two a day) We want opening credit sequences with these soon to bedded beauties bouncing all over the screen in silhouette form. We want our Bond to be sticking his licenced to thrill weapon into anything with boobs and we want him to callously get up and blow them off with an off colour remark or two before they've even had chance to catch their breath!

One last thing (and we cannot stress this one enough) we want James Bond to be alive at the end of it, ready to do his bit for Queen and country all over again in the next instalment.

THATS ALL WE WANT. So why the hell are they not giving it us?

No Time to Die changes so much of the tried and tested formula. Let's face it, they've been chipping away at it for so long now (primarily to please the woke, PC, SJW lunatics) that they had practically whittled it down to nothing before this turkey even went into production.

GET THIS EON! We do not want a soppy and insipid love sick Bond. We do not want soap operas, melodramas, emotional tear jerkers or a message picture. We don't want domestic complications and we definitely don't want major cannon alterations whereby a long established arch villain is revealed to be Bonds long lost brother (I mean come on!!! Who the hell signed off on that cowpat of an idea?) We just want an exciting, action packed, edge of your seat spy caper, with big explosions, kick as$ fist fights, tongue in cheek humour, larger than life baddies and some good old fashioned male chauvinism thrown in for good measure. CAN YOU DO THAT?

It's clear from the ending of NTTD that the only way forward for the character of Bond now is a full reboot. Make it a good one and go back to the source material and the original movies to find your bearings again. Whatever you do, don't gimmick up the franchise by pandering to the woke PC diversity whingers.

As it stands today. Cubby Broccoli, Harry Saltzman, Sean Connery and Roger Moore must all be turning in their graves due to the creation of this pile of a--gravy!

This is by far the worst James Bond movie ever made. On the surface it might seem good to some people, but, in terms of the future for the franchise, I don't think they could have made anything worse than this.

They actually killed off James Bond at the end of the movie. You can't do that. It has never happened before, for a good reason. James Bond is never supposed to actually die. We as an audience like seeing him in dangerous situations, but, he always was able to turn things around and ultimately win. That is why we loved him. By definitively killing the character here, it will never be the same again when they now try and bring him back.

This was the worst creative decision that they could have ever made, it is like making a fun Christmas movie and then giving Santa terminal cancer at the end. It might shock the audience, but, that does not mean that it is good story telling.

Here is what I predict. The film has good reviews right now, but, I think that over time people are gradually going to start turning on it. By killing the James Bond character they have crossed a line that was never supposed to crossed, and I really don't see a way back from this.

The first 20-25 minutes are superb (from the music to the location to the acting to the action), but then the titles fall (cool titles, bland song), and the movie never quite reaches those heights again. For such a long, bloated running time it's too talky and surprisingly short on action; in fact, there are only two other notable set-pieces, the car chase in the woods and Ana de Armas brightening up the screen as an overeager, bubbly yet skilled and deadly agent. Most of the rest of the action is uninspired, and in the climactic sequence (just a regular attack-on-the-enemy-fortress we've seen hundreds of times) often dim and murky (Tomorrow Never Dies did this sort of thing much better, and so did some of the Roger Moore Bonds). The plot is formulaic (biological weapon....again), and its treatment of several key players from previous installments disappointing. The ending is pretty silly - it leaves a mess behind that the (inevitable) next chapter will either have to work a whale of a story to get around or (more likely) will ignore altogether. Craig does succeed at embodying a very human Bond, yet I can't help but think that he never really got the chance to do a FUN James Bond living the high life: in Casino he is earning his stripes, in Quantum he is seeking vengeance, in Skyfall he is already tired and resigned, in No Time his circle comes to an end. I guess he came closest to having a good time in Spectre, which is why that film is still my favorite of the five he made. **1/2 out of 4.

No Time to Die engages in its farewell, but still finds itself near the bottom of the heap.

The opening's solid, the Billie Eilish song okay, the credits dull. Interesting plot, can relate to the COVID shot in a way. I'm surprised and disappointed Ana de Armas isn't in it more, though Lea Seydoux does a fine job. Craig's films while never among the best, aren't among the worst either. This one drops off a bit though and the PC levels set fire to what the franchise is built on and part of what makes it great. Credit that it has the "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" theme and "We Have all the Time in the World," the high point of the franchise, no mention of Tracy though. Craig the usual, Waltz good as Blofeld but limited like de Armas. Negatively Malek as the bad guy doesn't give a performance and other characters including the new 007, woeful.

Yes at least we got some gadgets but that was about it.

Ana was in the movie maybe 10 minutes super hot The 007 got given to a women what a surprise.

Felix dies. And in all this stupidity James Bond is a father who did not know.

I really hope if bond starts over again they won't blow it up like this one..... a great deception this movie is.

Should have never been made - so sad to see 007 go down in flames 🔥

I am huge Bond fan so eagerly awaited the release of No Time to Die. The film starts off strong, the second half got a bit bloated and could have been shorter. I like how it wasn't the traditional Spectre vs MI6 but really a new villain who emerged because he was caught in the crossfire many years ago, nicely done. However my main issue here lies in the ending. As Sir Sean Connery once quipped in Goldfinger it was shocking, absolutely shocking.

Daniel Craig has been a great Bond and we all knew he didn't want to do another film. We get it. But I feel an unspoken rule was broken when Bond was killed off. A number of people point out that this was a fitting end to Craig's era and it wrapped his films which had continuity. I would correct them by saying Bond in film has almost 60 years of continuity. Bond could have been killed a million times but he wasn't because it is essentially a legacy that is passed on to new generations. Craig is not bigger than Bond, no actor was. It is a great mantle that is passed on. Also Craig had an exceptional film in Skyfall but his other films were luke warm, as received by critics. So why is there a big push to wrap up his run? A bold director could have have reinvented the character again with a new actor. It's been done before.

Some have pointed to the evolution of the character, again tied to Craig's films... He went from ruthless to giving his life away. I do appreciate adding complexity and changing things up but the question then is are we even watching a Bond film anymore? Bond has been alluring because of its escapism, intrigue and class for many years. I'm sure the actors and fans can list many elements that make it great. But this feels strange. I think the Director got confused about which series he was making. I am disappointed in Barbara Broccoli as well, I thought she respected the legacy of the franchise. I wonder what Cubby Broccoli would have thought.

You could remove Rami Malek's character entirely and it would have very little impact on the story. The villian is SO b grade it's actually funny (and they have been for years), And a female 007!! It just dont work. Honestly I thought the movie was boring, but it did feel weird in how it felt like they were trying to really knock down bond and then compare him to the new 007 Female, making her look so much more amazing instead of on par with him. Very weak Bond movie, and horrible ending, shooting scene with Bond and this two girls was one of the most ridicoulus scene I saw, like it was a pastiche of an action movies only it weren't. I hated it. The opening was amazing, afterwards the plot became a bit of a mess. But the point where I got really upset was when they killed Bond. It was not the end of a character arc but just cheap shock value and going against the very character of Bond. It 's a disappointment on the level of Indiana Jones and the crystal skull or Game of Thrones final season. Shame, Shame, Shame!

Now I'm going to watch Timothy's bond films to recover from this fiasco! This is the worst kind of movie ever made in the history of so called "entertainment".

It takes 30 minutes to get to the opening credits. We discover Bond has a love in Madeleine (Léa Seydoux) and we discover she is the daughter of Spectre. After a near death experience Bond places her on a train and goes and lives on an island somewhere. He is drawn back into service with the re-emergence of the Heracles project which targets DNA and uses nanobots. Oh yeah. There is a remote island with a sinister lab on it.

I am weary of the whole Spectre fight. The new personal aspects of Bond bored me. Daniel Craig is classless compared to Sean Connery and gets his hands way too dirty. The opening theme was lousy. It was certainly no "Diamonds are Forever." And the ending? Geesh. You thought fans were upset when Judi Dench was axed. I did like Ana de Armas as Paloma for the short time she was on the screen. Why didn't they write her a larger role? She would have been great during the end scenes.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

I think Ramy Malik was the biggest disappointment in the movie. His whole character motivation and intentions were total nonsense, which was a shame given that the character background was actually pretty interesting. This is a terrible movie. Shouldn't have existed in the first place. The plot and motivations make no sense at all and totally ruin Bond's character arc. 007 deserved a better end than this. This is the worst bond movie. Story was plucked out of nothing. I'm still left thinking what was that. I don't want to say what happened, judge yourself. If you love bond films then your in for a firm slap to the face as this is just bull. The whole cinema was in shock, everyone saying it was Terrible. Daniel Craig just getting a pay check. His last bond and sums him up, the worst. Never getting that time back. Shame. The villain made absolutely no sense. At the end of the day he just wants to. Kill a bunch of people because, reasons? He's not even an anarchist like the Joker, his motivations for revenge only extend to Dr. Swan and to a lesser extent, Spectre. Spoiler warning, but he got his revenge on the latter, so what is the point of everything else? I simply was bored with half of this movie. The Craig franchise should have ended with Spectre.

Not a James Bond film. This is a story of bureaucracy, and constraint. A joyless, forced feminine diatribe about equality and humanity. It is a disrobing of any masculinity the character had left, by chastising the traits and joys of his escapist behaviours that appeal to the male audience: violence, heroism, booze, boobs, charm, humour and technology/gadgets.

Cultural vandalism on an epic scale. After making $millions, Daniel Craig has no hesitation in killing off the character which made him famous as well as preventing other actors the opportunity of playing the role.

I'll make short and simple... When the lead character dies after 2 ++hours long movie and you don't care less .... When the lead character is James Bond and he dies and you still don't care , then something is terribly wrong..nothing more to add.

Reviewing the demise of Craig's latest Bond is easy: watch the YouTube clip where in an interview he says, to the effect "Another Bond movie? Over my dead body. Well, maybe... if they pay me an insane amount of money, maybe"

He got two things right in this revealing interview: over his dead body and an insane amount of money.

When an actor is bored with/ finished being truthful to a beloved character, the actor should step aside or be replaced. And when an actor turns to the camera and says 'I'll do this movie only if the producers pay me tons of money' he should never have the chance to play the role again. His heart is not in it. For just under three hours he's humming Pink Floyd's "Money" to himself.

This movie is insulting on all levels but most of all to millions of fans who have loved Ian Fleming's novels and the on screen actors who personified James Bond 007.

Update: It has to be said in addition to all the reviews of the movie itself that when we step back and look at the clear downward trend in ratings over the last few months as opposed to the flood of positive reviews in the first few weeks, it comes as no surprise. Why? Simple. Film companies spending millions in pre-release media hype is par for the course, especially when they know the film to be so bad that there's a risk of losing money. Remember Batwoman? And just about anything recent from Bruce Willis or Sylvester Stallone? Here's the equation that saavy moviegoers know: large production budgets + poor pre-release ratings = large pre-release advertising budget. Works everytime. Influencing the tastes and interests of moviegoers by developing excitement around an impending release is what they do best, particularly when their bottom line is at risk. If a broker calls and says there's an IPO you should consider investing in because the ROI will be attractive, how many of us would ignore the advice? Only the more experienced long term investor, that's who.

My point is there's no reason to spend millions on advertising on, for example, Parasite, American Hustle, Jojo Rabbit, Knives Out or anything from Quentin Tarantino or Martin Scorcese. Investors/production houses know, even on big budget releases that these movies will stand on their reputation and credibility (95% of the time) without having to mislead the public through pre-release media blitzes about how great this film is, but, as they know, isn't.

ABC, NBC, CNN, BBC, ORF, ZDF ad nauseam jump on the pre-release hype to improve viewship and take the money without a thought to the possibility the film could be junk. And why should they? They are in business to bring news and entertainment to the public and not to second guess the hand that feeds them.

It is up to us, the moviegoer to not 'invest' in movies that don't meet our standards. Everytime we rush to the box office and fork over hard earned cash for a substandard movie we perpetuate the continued production of low grade entertainment... a self perpetuating cycle.

To break this cycle we must become less reactive to media hype and peer pressure and apply greater scrutiny to spending our money on films that, like any get rich quick scheme will likely be a disappointment in the end. If it's being promoted 'as great' beyond reasonability or common sense then it probably isn't.

NO TIME TO DIE (2021) ***1/2 Daniel Craig, Lea Seydoux, Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Rory Kinnear, Jeffrey Wright, Billy Magnussen, Christsoph Waltz, David Dencik, Ana de Armas, Dali Benssalah. Craig's swan song as 007 delivers all the goods with his brute force tactics and surprising vulnerability are on tap when his services are requested after 5 years retirement to stop baddie Lyutsifer Safin (silky Malek) from infiltrating a deadly nanobot virus via DNA into the world populace while also nursing his love for Seydoux who is in the mix in oh so many ways. Filmmaker Cary Joji Fukunaga (who collaborated on the screenplay with Nal Purvis, Robert Wade and Phoebe Waller-Bridge) infuses death-defying set pieces with visual flair to spare (best viewed in Imax) as well as some much needed dry wit and humor.

Casino Royale and then it was all downhill.

This last one is absymal. The villain(s) plan's are confusing and youre never sure what exactly he is trying to do or target, Bond 100% completely unnecessarily sacrifices himself despite the fact he could still be with his family and in the future they might fix the nanobots since the nanotech is evolving progressingly fast, him always having access to most advanced tech.

Also despite all these films and stories over the years, his character is still so bland and not fleshed out so you just cannot really feel for him and because it seems the story keeps repeating itself just for the sake of sequels/money. ZZzzzz..... Terrible film , boring, confusing, too long and as so many films today, keeps underestimating the viewers intelligence making the film dumb.

They ruined even the james boond movie

Worst storylines, wort performances, worst cinematography

Bye,james boond! I will not watch the next james boond!

Any review not declaring spoilers is failing to mention something. And you aren't going to like it.

It's not like the signs weren't there. The first film heavily trailed "Daniel's been having track driving lessons." Then didn't have a car chase worthy of the name. I should have realised then these people have egos you can see from space. The franchise was not in safe hands. Subverting things is an obsession with some writers. They think it's clever.

I'm so bloody sick of the misuse of the word brave. I prefer it's original sense of heroism. The new, semi-arcastic version implying someone has done something extraordinarily unwise doesn't sit well with me. Because the people exhibiting this new sense of bravery still think it's the original one. They seem blissfully unaware everyone is shaking their heads and thinking "Oh, dear."

The final film has far too much talking, substandard car stunt work except for the opening sequence, and vast plot holes, including the concept of the nanites used for the central plot. Now before someone says "It's a Bond movie, not a science documentary," please hear me out. Let's look at the franchise canon.

Casino: Straightforward bomb plot.

Quantum: A surprisingly cerebral polemic about the private control of water.

Skyfall: Hacker.

SPECTRE: Old school sleeper agents.

Even the older movies are plausible. Hijack a nuke by kidnapping the pilot's sister (or Vesper's boyfriend). A ship swallowing other ships (used twice at sea and in space). A Stealth boat. Dare I mention kill the planet with a virus and start again? None impossible and none flawed within the context of their time.

The nanites are plausible, there are prototypes in labs as we speak. But within the mechanics of the plot, they just don't work.

How do they replicate in sufficient numbers to transmit through skin and kill so fast a few minutes after infection? Why can't they destroyed by other nanites? Q, it seems, has suddenly had a drop in his IQ...

This plausibility hole the size is created in service of the BIG IDEA they had from the start. Let's kill the hero. Our core audience is getting older. We need to rebrand. Fair enough. What you didn't have to do was reward our decades of loyalty with a stab in the back.

The obvious answer to "Can James Bond ever be a woman?" was "No. But 007 can be anyone." There are multiple 00 agents - dare I suggest at least 9? It's a job title, like M and Q. It was within their gift to retire James Bond from being 007, in fact they already had. One last hurrah, then ice fishing with his daughter. But that's not "brave" enough, is it?

Kill James Bond? How bloody dare you!

Forget me buying this via any medium or getting 4K upgrades of the others...

I'm out.

James Bond (Daniel Craig) is married to Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux). She has a secret past. He's visiting the grave of Vesper Lynd when Spectre attacks. Blofeld claims that Madeleine is a daughter of Spectre. It's five years later. Bond is retired and living alone. Russian bio-weapon scientist Valdo Obruchev has been kidnapped by new baddie Lyutsifer Safin (Rami Malek). MI6 and the CIA are at cross-purposes. Both are searching for Obruchev.

This reportedly is to be Craig's final outing as Bond. This feels very much like a lot of James Bond's greatest hits. There is golden hour shot near the end where I realize that this is really the golden hour of Craig's Bond. The sun is setting on his tenure. Madeleine talking to Mathilde is tinged with nostalgia. She's telling her about his past. His chapter of the book is done.

As for the movie, it opens great. There is a great chase in the narrow streets of an Italian mountain village. I love the motorcycle jump. It's so simple and so clean. There are no jumpy cuts or shaky camera work in that shot. Ana de Armas has a great introduction with her "three weeks of training". I like M's duplicity. I'm less enamored with Blofeld's transformation into Hannibal Lecter. I would rather they imagine something else, something different. Safin is definitely the weakest link. Rami Malek is forced to do a dull old fashion villain. Bond is talking to M and they actually made fun of the new villain as having the same old evil plans. It would have been a lot simpler if Obruchev is the new villain. He played M and has his own kill list. His joke to Nomi about killing all the black people is more chilling and more memorable than anything yadayada evil plan from Safin. Safin's best scenes happen in the beginning without showing his face. It's a long movie and by hour three, the repetitive gun fire keeps droning on and on. It gets a bit tired. It would have helped by cutting out one villain and concentrating the screen time. This is the end Beautiful friend.

Daniel Craig delivers a robust farewell performance as 007 in the 25th James Bond movie "No Time to Die," another long, drawn-out, often tedious extravaganza with lackluster villains capped off with a bizarre ending. Mind you, the 007 gang is all back, including Ms. Moneypenny (Naomie Harris), gadget guru Q (Ben Whishaw), Chief of Staff Tanner (Rory Kinnear), CIA agent Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright), and 007's crusty boss M (Ralph Fiennes) Head of MI6. Bond's perpetual enemy Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Oscar winner Christoph Waltz of "Inglourious Basterds") lurks on the periphery from his prison cell. Sadly, although he reappears here, Blofeld's screen time is far too minimal. Rami Malik's somnambulist villain Lyutsifer Safin epitomizes every Ian Fleming literary character who ever sought revenge. Worse, Safin's lack of stature in the gallery of audacious Bond adversaries doesn't serve him well. Meantime, too much of anything can be a bore, and Bond 25's biggest shortcoming is its length. Clocking in at a marathon 163 minutes, this 007 outing makes repeated allusions to "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969). The least the Bond producers could have done is whittle 45 minutes off this meandering melodrama. Meanwhile, not only does Q have more than his usual number of scenes, but so also does M. Actually, M sets everything in motion with a cloak-and-dagger project codenamed Heracles that he conjured up without approval. Mind you, the $250 million budget makes "No Time to Die" look like a travelogue, with the scenic locales overshadowing the larger-than-life shenanigans. Indeed, "No Time to Die" boasts impressive production values, with Craig eager to engage his enemies with or without his license to kill. Unfortunately, little about "Beast of No Nation" director Cary Joji Fukunaga's entry in the cinematic Ian Fleming franchise is remarkable, except its ending. Ultimately, despite everything you may have heard to the contrary, the closing credits to "No Time to Die" conclude with the familiar phrase: JAMES BOND WILL RETURN. Compared with Craig's other Bond movies, "No Time to Die" makes Craig's most abysmal outing "Quantum of Solace" appear superior on several counts.

"No Time to Die" unfolds in the past, with Madeleine Swann as a child (newcomer Coline Defaud), living with her mother (Mathilde Bourbin of "Louise"), in a remote but picturesque domicile in the middle of a snow-swept, Norwegian forest on the edge of a frozen lake. Madeleine's mom is Mr. White's wife. Earlier, the notorious Mr. White appeared in both "Casino Royale" (2006) and "Quantum of Solace" (2008) as an enemy agent who tangled with Bond. This opening scene occurs long before either of those Bond escapades. An enigmatic stranger garbed in military apparel, wearing a Japanese Noh mask, and armed with an assault rifle, arrives at Mr. White's house. Lyutsifer Safin (Rami Malik) has come to kill Mr. White because he murdered Safin's parents and family. Seeking payback, Safin has to settle for killing White's wife, since White isn't home. Madeleine manages to shoot Safin, but she doesn't kill him. Instead, fleeing from the house, she crosses onto the frozen lake, plunges through thin ice, and almost drowns. Ironically, Safin rescues Madeleine. Afterward, "No Time to Die" fast-forwards into the future. We learn James Bond has not only retired from MI6, but he has also fallen in love with an adult Madeleine. If you missed the previous Bond "Spectre" (2015), you should watch it. Meantime, the couple are vacationing in sunny Italy near the cemetery where Bond's long, lost "Casino Royale" lover Vesper Lynd is buried. Sentimental sap that Bond is, he visits her grave. Moments before the gravesite blows up in his face, Bond spots a business card with Spectre's symbol--an octopus--embossed on it. Naturally, Bond thinks Madeleine wanted to kill him. She didn't, but he doesn't learn this until five years later. More Spectre assassins emerge to kill our hero, but he survives their futile attempts on his life.

Meanwhile, terrorists break into a secret MI6 laboratory and kidnap a scientist, Valdo Obruchev (David Dencik of "The Snowman"), who has been developing Project Herakles, a deadly, top-secret, DNA-based bioweapon teeming with nanobots that can infect a person like a virus. Worst, Herakles was M's brainchild, and it was supposed to enable an assassin to kill a target in a crowd without harming anybody else. Eventually, Madeleine and Bond reunite when MI6 dispatches Bond to a maximum-security British prison where Blofeld is held. Madeleine (Léa Seydoux of "The Lobster") is Blofeld's psychiatrist. Blofeld confesses to Bond that he--not Madeleine--tried to kill him in Italy. Anything more about this elaborate plot would either be confusing or spoil the impending revelations. Like a standard issue Bond opus, our hero tracks down Obruchev and finds him on Safin's private island where the villain cultivates poisonous plants in an exotic garden. Mind you, this garden is something the writers took from Ian Fleming's second-to-last Bond novel "You Only Live Twice."

Apart from two impressive, bullet-riddled, stunt-laden, action scenes featured in the "No Time to Die" trailer, nothing here will spike your blood pressure. Typically, the flamboyant villains make Bond movies memorable. Alas, Blofeld has only a couple of scenes, while Safin doesn't pose much of a physical threat. Daniel Craig and Léa Seydoux generate only a modicum of chemistry as lovers. The other letdown is MI6 agent Nomi (Lashana Lynch of "Captain Marvel"), who has inherited Bond's number 007. She adds little to the fireworks that spotlight her mettle. Altogether, "No Time To Die" qualifies as a fair-to-middling thriller.

Ok, now that James Bond is dead - physically, anyway; the spirit of Bond died with Timothy Dalton - can we please just bury the franchise and move on? Pretty please?

I beg the powers that be to stop trying to milk a dead cow and just move on to something new. Let Cmdr. Bond rest in peace. Stop the mockery. Stop bastardizing this beloved figure. Bond was created a long, long time ago, when the world was blissfully devoid of wokeness, cancel culture, political correctness and other pestilential scourges that blight our world today. You cannot PC James Bond. If you don't like the franchise, don't watch it. And certainly DON'T tamper with it.

Hollywood and whatever the British equivalent is, should just do their thing and leave the classics alone. Trust me, the world will not come to an end if you do.

That is all I have to say.

And now I politely ask IMDb to give me the same right to voice my opinion they gives everybody else.

... and you notice how the sponsored scores were all at the start the 10/10's... knowing that on 06/10/2021 it's showing 7.3/10 and will drop to the 5's within weeks.

This really is POOR film making. After a fantastic first 10 minutes... to a dull and terrible Bond Song and intro... it's quickly nose dives into cliche and appalling acting and script.

Nothing in this film I can find to reccomend... really other than the additional spy in the black dress, wow what chemistry they had.

So, Madeline and Bond... the worst couple that enver worked in Spectre unlike Vespa and Bond... really feel so emotionally detatched it's embaressing to watch. The production and editing are bad... and at 2:30 it's about 30 minutes too long.

Killing sprectre off basically in the space of 10 minutes rofl rofl rofl... yeah that makes sense with a flower grower...

I can't get over this and the finale... well that is literally the end of the Bond Franchise... it can't actually come back now and 60 years now thrown down the toilet... Couldnt' be more gutted for what was possibly the best bond with Daniel Craig...

"No Time to Die" is a co-production between the United States of America and the United Kingdom from 2021 and this is of course the most recent James Bond film we have here. It is a definite contender for most awaited film of the decade because on the one hand the viewer numbers are self-explanatory and on the other hand this film has been delayed so many times because of the corona pandemic that it was truly high time for it to actually hit theaters everywhere. Which it did not too long ago. Being a a huge Bond fan myself, who has seen all the other films (no exceptions), I was curious enough to watch several hours of red-carpet broadcast from London a while ago when the film had its world premiere there and most key cast members showed up and the Royals were also there to check it out. It runs for over 2 hours and 40 minutes which makes it a truly long film and even if it is an hour or so longer than another Daniel Craig Bond movie, nobody can really be surprised. It was already an option that Craig could end his Bond career before this one here, but he returned again for a fifth and final 007 performance. Unfortunately, as you can see from the title of my review, I don't think this was as amazing as it could have been. I still think that Casino Royale and Skyfall are his two best movies and clearly ahead of the rest, even if it's not easy at all to pick the number one. But that is another story. Let's look at this one here now. Director is Cary Joji Fukunaga, who is mostly known for his work on True Detective, so the outcome here is surely his biggest big screen success as of now. He is also one of the writers and the other two are again Purvis and Wade who were already there during the Brosnan era. Enough said. They could very well also be there again when the next 007 takes over. Whoever it will be. I mean we already have a Black female 007 in this film, even if I doubt she will become the new lead to the franchise. But we will see.

As for the cast, there is nothing to say about Craig anymore. Some of the others are people who reprise their characters from previous movies. Especially the one before. Léa Seydoux is back playing Bond's one and only love interest in this film and it's very serious as we find out, not only because of the child that joins them, but also because of the long sequence early on, which is linked to Vesper Lynd again and her story of betrayal back in Craig's very first Bond movie, so it is a bit of a framework you could say. Is he betrayed again? This time by Madeleine? Christoph Waltz is in this film here too. No surprise obviously, but he does not have a lot of screen time unfortunately. He is an actor I like and I definitely think that there could have been much more to his Blofeld than there was in this film and the previous one. Let's be honest: With what they did with/to him here, it maybe would have been better if he had not been in the film at all. I think Fukunaga was basically only looking for a way to get him out of the picture somehow and put all his focus on the key antagonist in here. That would be the character played by Oscar winner Rami Malek. He is a new addition to the cast and (if we don't count the very first masked scene) it takes quite a while for him to finally join the action, namely when he sits there in Madeleine's presence, but once he is there, he is bound to stay. Great screen presence as always and his villain character is among the better aspects from this film, especially in that scene where he takes the girl from her with the aura of poison all around him. Another antagonist character is played by Dali Benssalah. Very easy to identify too with his physicality. Not just the eye, even if this eye, especially in the final fight scene, and how he/it is taken out is maybe the biggest cult moment from this film and I had to think of Oddjob's hat back in Goldfinger there. I could go on and on. Jeffrey Wright is there again, so is Ralph Fiennes. Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris. New faces with a decent amount of screen time include Lashana Lynch, David Dencik and Billy Magnussen. All no really big names, so they made sure nobody takes away too much attention from Craig's farewell performance.

Comedy is once again nothing you find too frequently in here. There was some banter here and there between Bond and the new 007 about who is allowed to carry this number. There was this eye scene linked to the gadget, the one I just mentioned. Oh and maybe for my comedic highlight of it all I must mention Ben Whishaw. His talk about the guest he was about to have was more of a politically correct failure piece of comedy, maybe also linked to the actor's own sexuality, but when he tried to pretend in front of M that he had not seen Bond before this encounter, it was pretty funny. I give them/him that. Big smile there. As for the more dramatic moments, of course the one that stands out the very most is the exact ending. Bond has never died before in these films, so they were taking completely new directions here. I am not sure if I like it though. Big challenge and they probably could not have depicted it any better, but Bond always had this unkillable aura and maybe they should have stayed with it. Like breaking an unwritten rule. Oh well, this was not the first time Blofeld died either and they killed Leiter in the process of it too, but they will all be back sooner or later. In any case, these rockets hitting the island were pretty spectacular. Also bittersweet that they came from his side and 007 ordered them to be fired and you could say that M or MI6 messed up themselves by the fact that they lost this Heracles, this priceless killing program, to the bad side. So his own folks' shortcomings result in Bond's death in this movie. But he still makes sure that evil is buried with him and this gigantic factory of villainy goes down as well. The island between Russia and Asia here I liked the way it was depicted. The isolation of it all, but also these water areas (or liquid areas) in which people were working in thick riot gears. Not sure this is the right word.

As for the Bond song by Billie Eilish, I remember not liking it too much when I heard it first. Then it grew a bit on me over the months in the process of looking forward to this film perhaps. Now, as I heard it connected to the movie, I again am not too big on it. Also felt to me as if it was not used on many other occasions except the opening sequence where they always use the Bond song. So yeah, this will surely be one of the more forgettable Bond song and I am pretty sure that it will not repeat the awards success that Adele and Sam Smith had with their previous Bond songs. But we will see. An Oscar nomination seems like a big success already from my perspective. The win is not an option as of now the way I see it. I should probably also mention Finneas as he is co-writer, but I just don't really understand the Eilish hype at all. The music that stands out way more here is certainly Louis Armstrong's "We Have All the Time in the World", a timeless classic that you will hear with the closing credits and you also hear the name of this song being referenced on several occasions during this movie, key occasions really. The timelessness of this piece is something Eilish and her brother can only dream of. And it's also a beautiful jump back in time because this was used back in the day during the early 007 movie days already. For Dr. No if I am not mistaken. So yeah, the film had something to offer on the music front as well, not only with Hans Zimmer's soundtrack. The technicality we don't need to criticize. Costumes, sets, makeup, cinematography, sound effects etc. All this is in competent hands here and could not have been much better. But story is key and this is the reason why I don't give a truly high rating. By the way, I thought on some occasion that Madeleine's father here could be Blofeld. I mean we hear about him being a killer, a doctor which he is in the old film, always carries the title Dr. Ernst Stavro Blofeld and here in the previous film he even went with Mr. Bleuchamp, so a French connection was also there. So when we know that Bond can kill Blofeld with his hands because of the virus, I thought that he would kill Madeleine too, but they touched and kissed and she did not die, so we did not find out about her real father.

As for Malek's character, he is of course also a tragic figure with what happened to his family earlier and his revenge idea in terms of killing the killer's family can be related to somehow, but what he turns into is definitely insane. I mean this was a touch of Thanos already I felt. Killing millions of people and causing some kind of natural selection this way. While with Thanos we were getting this idea of a relentless god, I still felt that they could have elaborated a bit more there on Safin's approach. Not the tennis player. Sorry, I just had to. Overall, this is of course unsurprisingly another Bond film that people who like the franchise should not miss out on and it is also definitely a better watch in movie theaters. Go see it on the big screen and preferrably do so now while it is still on because I have made the experience that at least here they do not really show past Bond films in movie theaters. The old ones. Maybe because they are all on television still from time to time and actually several times each year. I am not sure what you will like most about this movie, but I think there is enough to pick from and there are definitely more positive moments to the outcome here than negative moments. Actually, almost no negative moments. Ana de Armas could have been given better material. I mean she is second-cast on imdb because of her name, but barely a factor. Oh well, maybe we will see more from her character in the next movie. It's still also never really a great film unfortunately. I feel like Fukunaga was playing it safe overall, which hurt the film.

And the reason for that, is it's the last Bond movie ever made.

They killed Felix, Bond, Blofeld, Spectre and destroyed the entire franchise.

A very long goodbye.

This movie should never have been made! You don't take an iconic character the has entertained audiences for 60 years, and kill him off for the sake of political correctness. His character was emasculated, and left to die for nothing more than to satisfy the Me2 movement. Hollywood has gone too far! There is no denying that this film had plenty of action, however it doesn't justify what they did to the greatest spy that ever lived! They destroy his will to live by making sure he could never see his daughter, and her mother ever again.

Making "Q" gay! Really? I hope this movie fails! It is a slap in the face to all the Bond loyalists around the world. Star Wars was destroyed in the same manner for similar reasons. I am so sick of what Hollywood has become, and their desire to destroy all that we loved in favor of restarting these iconic movies and characters, in their new twisted image.

Cliche after cliche. Woke upon woke and bad beyond bad. Worst bond villain ever but his face was worst than blofelts so he is a worst person???? Pathetic!! & Glad they killed bond in the end I couldn't watch him in another movie after this mess.

Worst then the living daylights.

Some great action scenes early on, but then dulls down. Another main bad guy that doesn't really live up to expectations.

To make things worse the am attempt to make 007 movies more progressive destroys them.

Then to finally destroy bond history and kill him off in the end. Great work guys you destroyed the franchise.

Too . . . Many downsides:

Too dark in colour: WHERE is the lighting expertise?! Shadows within the story DON'T have to be shown as shadows in the film. All I remember is one moment of colour: and that was just a simple dress the character 'Madeleine' wore in the holiday scenes. The scenery might have photographed well in colour, but we need a bit of glam in a 'Bond' movie . . . Even the dress in the party scene - worn by the female agent - didn't shimmer with light anything like the other 'Bond' girl outfits have in past films, like the midnight blue Swarovski dress in 'The Spy Who Loved Me'. Too many granite tones . . . Too much grey everywhere.

I then remembered this error of colourisation judgement also being the style they opted for in other recent 'Bond' films . . . Hence it's clearly a purposeful feature by the production team. A sad technical choice, in my opinion. So maybe these 2006-plus 'Bond' films are just not to my liking? . . . A flash of colour gives our good old 'Bond' films the 'shazam' we know & love. So where was it in this film? Sadly the answer is nowhere: the film overall lacks much excitement for the viewer.

And as the film is far too long, this lack of 'pizzazz' in the presentation is even more noticeable. The film, at 2h 43m, would have been better broadcast as a 2-part movie, or better still simply cut by 43minutes!

Other flaws: Too much 'ticking boxes'. Too predictable a script. And too derivative: of tropes in other 'Bond' films. Yes, a few subtle references to past '007' movies were nicely referenced and felt well placed (e.g. The tune 'All the time in the world...'), but the overall feel was that many of the actual scenes had all been done before.

Many storylines weren't fleshed out. Yes, there were some lovely witty lines, which were most welcome - and 'Q's tea set drawer was most humorously appropriate - but these are not matched by a required continuity.

Some scenes were poorly timed in the plot: 'Bond's almost superhuman ability in the fight-'em-on-the-staircase scene seems somewhat daft, considering how emotive he'd just been and how tired any man/human would have been at this point. But then this seems to be the modern style of action movies, where - like in the 'Matrix' films - humans seem to have surpassed the limitations of the human condition.

More limitations include: too many one-dimensional characters. 'Q' still feels miscast. 'M' could have been played by a lesser actor; and was portrayed as a dumbass who did not even retort when he was bitchily insulted by his employee (& that barb didn't even sound like something 'Bond' would EVER say!). Rather than being the dry, authoritarian leader we have know for decades of film, his character has been rewritten as a wimp. And Rory Kinnear had to play a poorly one-dimensional character, with little to offer to the story except to just reintroduce him from another 'Bond' film. What a waste of talent. What a waste of story scoping.

And the sound? Too quiet! We could hardly hear the spoken lines, so had to turn up the volume on the film - but this just meant that we then heard the action scenes at a deafening level, and STILL couldn't hear the script! . . . Diction, technical team, please!

Too . . . Many flaws. :-(

I love 'Bond' movies, but not all of these latest offerings. Just because a sequel can be made doesn't mean it should. A carefully crafted film should be made, not a token to movie marketing.

Still, that all being said, it IS one of the best of the 5 post-Brosnan versions. It had us seeing a touching humanistic side of the 'Bond' character, which made him seem more real a person. Plus, cut the length of the film, throw in a sizeable splash of colour, bring in the sound engineers - and I'll watch it again.

Re-edit, anyone?! :-/

When I first watched Daniel Craig 15 years ago, I was not ready for the direction they were taking the character. It felt like a good movie, but it felt quite divorced from the Bond I grew up with ... the Bond I knew. But apart from that effort being a Bond begins sort of thing (and this being the other end of that ... line), the franchise bit by bit gave us certain things ... we as viewers yearned for. While keeping it fresh.

Bond ... James Bond! That line - one of many that are (in)famous in the long list of Bond movies - gets a new spin here. As is the iconic Bond shooting towards the camera. Now I could name many more things that this film revisits and I probably still would miss some. There are many references here, either visually or via audio.

The beginning is quite the introduction ... it is almost funny because it takes its time. And it is funny because the rest sometimes feels rushed. There are many loose ends the movie wants to (neatly?) tie up. Another day, another Bond song, another Bond intro - although quite late in the game.

Bond has grown - grown not just over the course of the movie Craig played him, but generally speaking. Society changes and Bond has no issue sitting on on the backseat of a motorbike, while a woman is driving. That is not enough for you to go on a rampage and scream "wokeness".

Many known faces return, but many new ones too. Be it the ever excellent if only shortly used Ana de Armas (no pun intended) or our uber villain Rami Malek. Now while I really liked what I saw and while the running time is 2,5 hours ... there are things that can be seen and called flaws. You can question Bonds love to Eva Greens character ... or him still holding onto her, you can question methods used and how convenient certain things happen - or how some stunts would put the Fast and Furious franchise to shame ... but if you did that, you would derive yourself of a lot of fun.

Not being aware of the previous entries may not be necessary, but you'll have a lot of things to discover and smile at, if you have seen at least some of them. Of course if it is only a few of them, make it the Craig Bonds, so you have the whole ... story. Generally speaking I can't wait to revisit all the movies.

No time to watch (them)? Well make time ;) Also to conclude with a fun "fact": the title No time to Die has been used before ... by another movie in 2006. The year Daniel Craig became Bond! Coincidence? Or full circle? All kidding aside, I have not seen that movie (yet), so don't hate on me if it isn't any good. Otherwise, out with the old ... in with the new - whoever that may be and however the franchise is going to reinvent itself ... I'll be there - I hope you will be there too.

How to ruin the greatest film franchise ever in history; well you turn the lead character into a soy boy and you make sure the other estrogen players pull the heavy weight and save the day. Even thou at the end before he dies, Bond sacrifices his life for man kind. Sad to see him go because of a ball and chain.

Let's face it. Bond movies are NOT supposed to end this way. Cubby even included the famous line: "James Bond will be back" because audiences figured that when Connery left the series, they were kaput! No Bond film ever ended this way... dare I say it again? Am I repeating myself? Bond always goes off and does his thing. He either moves on to another case or goes to some remote location with the girl for a little smooching. But NEVER EVER in the history of the franchise did a Bond movie end this way. I was stunned. Even more than stunned. I was angry! And upset! I cried... then I got even more angry. How dare they put "James Bond will be back" at the end of the credits after the way they ended this film. I spit on your grave. I have every Bond film. I've seen them all a hundred times. I will never own this movie. What a rip off! They stole plot devices from other Bond films. They even ripped off the score! Spit! Spit! Spit!

Boring. The Mr Robot villain can't act, he speaks in monotone, trying to be evil, but not convincing anyone.

Story is weak, script is bland. They have Bond saying "I love you" more than once, like a bad TV soap.

They decided to kill Bond because why? The woke issues people have with Bond? Toxic masculinity or lack of diversity or something?

It's formula-driven, lazy writing. Nothing much happens except the poorly executed cliche action. A series of unlikely near-miss scenes, chained together in the hopes it adds up to entertainment. It does not add up to entertainment, it adds up to a bad movie.

Who cares or remembers story details and characters from previous Bond movies? It was a mistake to expect people will care about what happened years ago in Bond movies. They should have started a fresh story, rather than this "sequel" nonsense.

It seems like they struggled with the script and story. The end result looks like it went through numerous revisions, trying to please everyone but pleasing no one.

The sooner we forget about this dull and sleepy Bond episode the better.

First of all, in far too many moments this film is too far removed from a Bond film. The action scenes are too exaggerated and more like a bad homage to the Die Hard series, the shootouts get rampant. The style and elegance of the classic Bond idea are missing. Likewise, the Bond Girls, a real Q-moment and a consistent script are missing. The attempted circular argument to bring the beginning and end of the film together fails. But here are a few more obvious mistakes:

The martini, alcohol and "Bond. James Bond" moments seem more cobbled in, than naturally flowed into the script.

The organization Specter and Blomfeld are degraded.

The motivation of the (well-played) enemy is questionable and ultimately shallow.

The motivation of MI-6 at the end of the film is simply not told, otherwise the holes in the plot would become obvious.

Felix's fate is set too early in the film and loses its effect with the playing time.

Bond-optimism is missing.

The movie is predictable far too often. This is especially true of the end of this last Daniel Craig Bond.

James Bond would never give up.

And then the politics forced on this movie:

The female 007 as a replacement for a retired James Bond is not the problem. The problem is that a Mary-Sue was created here again, who can just do everything again. These characters are definitely not doing women any favors. Her toughness is far too often mocking, and there is also the fact that her character development is completely absent. Why she has an antipathy towards Bond at the beginning can still be understood (even if it is badly written and clichéd), but her development into a friend and / or admirer of Bond falls by the wayside.

References to racism are perfectly fine if they are done right. Otherwise they are a disservice to criticism of racism. Why is the Russian scientist dragged through the film alive and with a comment that is simply pulled out of the air, he is killed with a brisk phrase on his lips? Poor storyteller performance.

Why do you make a Bond film when you know what the essence of the character is, but you actually wanted to make something SJW-esque?

Questions after questions, but now to the last: Why then another 5 stars?

The actors' performances are mostly good.

The evil headquarters are cool.

The cinematography is convincing.

The music works as a Bond soundtrack.

Individual scenes work, such as the great beginning.

And the tired old Disney staple of killing someone's mother has been adapted by another Hollywood studio(mgm). They have also, in the past, managed to replace actors(who remained successful) without killing Bond. Where's the imagination??

The weak feminists have watered down and emasculated a james bond to the point of idiocy. Bumbling character who gets frightened emotional and startled %75 of the movie being talked down to at every turn. In every movie and the key element to james bonds charm is that he is one step ahead of everyone with smooth clever crafty precision... In this movie he is 2 mabe 3 steps behind with a side of incompetence and a majorly bitter weak vibe. His cast does the heavly lifting and bond is a replica older version that floats through the movie besides the opening action scene. One last thrill before you squirm in your seat and force down this fraudfest by the director. Oh and James bond literaly dies the end.

I saw the movie yesterday, acceptable until you reach the end. I have to admit that it left me in such a shock that until now, almost 24 hours later, I feel calm enough to write this review. If you value James Bond, don't watch this movie, watch an old movie like Goldfinger or From Russia With Love, even the movies from the Timothy Dalton era are a masterpiece compared to this. James Bond is dead, and if you ask me, he must stay dead. Of course I will never go to see a "Bond" movie at the cinema again, although from now on it should be called "living dead James"

RIP James Bond

The ending of No Time To Die didn't bother me. James Bond films had to end sooner or later and the series had been creaking along for some time. The horrendous Die Another Day and the pathetic SPECTRE.

What bothered me about this film was the path it took to get there.

It's length. All Daniel Craig 007 films, with the exception of Quantum of Solace, have been overly long. Before going to see No Time to Die and seeing how long the film was supposed to be, I joked with my wife saying= Are we seeing James Bond or Gone with the Wind?

Too much forboding. The use of OHMSS music, not just 'We have all the time in the world', plus the death of Felix Leiter.

Too much melodrama and too little action. Craig's 007 Bond entries have had this problem. Vesper Lynd, the mysterious Blofeld-Bond connection, and lastly Madelline Swan. Some of this stuff was done all right, I liked Silva's love-hate relationship with M. Remember 'Mommy has been very bad."? Here the melodrama overwhelms the movie. I don't go to Bond films for this.

Action. There was nothing in the least bit memorable in No Time to Die. What the film did have, is mostly rehashed nonsense prevalent in the action films of the last two decades. CGI has replaced good old fashioned stunt work and is why I rarely view action films nowadays.

James Bond films look to be through and to me its a good thing. RIP James Bond.

Honestly WTF, they killed Bond... killed him and why? Because the woke monster demanded this sacrifice on their alter, what a bunch of monsters and the media is celebrating a long boring funeral. Disgusting.

Let me say first that No time to Die, as a movie, is ok, but as a James Bond movie, it's awful, not to mention that the title is misleading. I never write reviews, this is my first review, and the reason I do this now it's because I am furious. After 59 years and 26 James Bond movies, someone decided that the James Bond movies should be about something more. I have been a James Bond fan since I was a kid, and I have seen all Bond movies numerous times. The only Bond movie I will never see again is this one. James Bond movies were about having a good evening at the movies. They were about charm, they were witty, they had class, and they were fun. I have no idea how we went from "little Nellie" to this. Neither Ian Fleming nor Albert Broccoli ever conceived of James Bond dying. Part of the charm was that you knew he could pull off just about anything. I don't care if some people decided to make James Bond movies about something more, but this is not what the Bond movies were about. You left the film with a smile and with a good feeling about the movie. You knew it was not realistic, but you didn't care. The one thing you were sure about was that you weren't going to watch a "dark" movie. Unfortunately, the latest trend caught up with the producers who decided to make No time to die a "dark" film. This Bond movie does not leave you with a pleasant aftertaste and is missing most of the James Bond movie attributes. It's the first time I left a James Bond movie without that "feel good" taste. If you are a Bond fan like I am, I think you will be very disappointed.

A long time coming and a long time playing, so was Daniel Craig's last outing as James Bond worth the wait? Not for me it wasn't. As I patiently watched the movie wend its tortuous way to the end, I'm sure I nodded off at one point and checked my watch more than once to try to hurry it along. I appreciate that the movie was trying to add a combination full stop and exclamation mark to the Craig years but in the end only produced three dots and maybe a question mark instead.

So, let's skip past the strictly generic title and strictly dullsville title song by new pop queen Billie Eilish and get into the main action where things start brightly with a classic Bond car-chase and escape from Mr Cyclops and his minions through a historic picturesque French hill-top village where a five-years retired James and girl friend Madeleine are staying. He next encounters old CIA chum Felix Lyter who inveigles him into helping him pursue a rogue Russian scientist who's developed the biological equivalent of the neutron bomb, a killer bacteria which targets the DNA of only the enemy, which if deployed means that none of the home side actually dies. Unsurprisingly, this brings in SPECTRE and MI6, as well as Blofeld in his latest guise as Remi Malek.

There's a crisp shoot-'em-up where James teams up with Paloma to create mayhem at a SPECTRE soirée set up to trap and kill Bond with the gas but then the action slows down again as James meets the new 21st Century 007, a black female and re-connects with Q and M for mucho exposition. It all ends up in old-time Bond fashion in Blofeld's high-tech island lair with a final countdown for our hero to negotiate in an ending which attempts to tie up all the loose ends of the preceding two and a half hours and indeed in a way, all the earlier Craig films.

Sorry, but I found it heavy-going. Malek's turn as Blofeld is decidedly eccentric and there's precious little humour to let even a little light in, I think I picked up just one Connery / Moore-esque quip in the whole film. Craig's Bond of course has been pretty humourless throughout his tenure and here the film is almost set up as a tragedy as it lurches heavily to its dark conclusion.

I'm not sure where the franchise will go next but I'm hoping for something a bit snappier and lighter than this. It's a pity that what started so well with this latest incarnation in "Casino Royale" should come to such an overbearing and grim ending.

I enjoyed all of Craig´s previous Bond movies but this one sadly fails on so many levels I don´t even know where to begin:

1- The theme song by the weird singer Billie Eilish was extremely weak and boring compared to all themes of previous 24 Bond movies. They chose her to target newer generations to follow the next 007 films (unfortunately, it looks like there won´t be any more James Bond in the next films).

2- Now there is a new 007 and it´s now an african-british woman (played by british actress Lashana Lynch). Ian Fleming´s novels were written with a white male as a 007 and the 007 number is not suposed to be given to another agent.

3- Q is represented as a homosexual. I guess this was also targeted to gay people as recent movies (including children´s movies) are now doing the same thing. None of the previous 007 movies talked about sexual orientation.

4- James Bond (Daniel Craig) dies (or should I say, commits suicide). He could have survived (the downside was, he would never be close to his love interest (played by french actress Léa Seydoux) and Bond´s 6 year-old daughter, therefore, he chose to kill himself which is none sense.

This is the first 007 movie where James Bond dies.

Craig didn´t want to continue as Bond since the wrapping of Skyfall and many people loved him as he was embraced as the best Bond so I guess the producers decided to kill him so people could let him go and also the producers were planning to create a new female 007 which seems to be the plan.

5- The movie lacks of a real villain like previous Bond films. Rami Malek´s character was weak compared to previous Bond villains.

I really was disappointed with the way the are changing one of the best and longest franchises in movie history and I didn´t like the way they got rid of Craig, he deserved a better movie.

I do not think I will watch another 007 film after this.

I've loved Bond ever since I saw Moonraker on ITV as a 5 year old on Boxing Day 1982. I have seen every Bond film since A View to a Kill in the summer of 1985 at the cinema including License To Kill my Dad blagging myself as 15 even though I was 12. Everytime I've left the cinema happy except today October 1st 2021. Thats all I got to say.

The problem with this movie is that it is not a true Bond film. To be fair, it is only for the first hour or so. In fact, the action scenes in Italy and Cuba are pretty good. What happens from Bond's visit to Blofeld and on is not...

From that point and on the movie goes downhill...

It is needlessly too long, it drags and Safin's plan is super convoluted to keep up with...

I also question the director's ability to use the actors. Craig's acting felt out of place many times, in fact I thought he was more like Benoit Blanc from Knives Out and less like Bond.

Greetings again from the darkness. Bond 25 is here, and it's quite a curtain call for actor Daniel Craig. The film's release has been postponed numerous times since September 2019, which has caused expectations and anxiety to build amongst Bond fans. It's been almost six years since SPECTRE (2015), and this is Daniel Craig's fifth and final turn as 007. This production faced challenges even before the pandemic hit. Cary Joji Fukunaga (best known for "True Detective" and BEASTS OF NO NATION, 2015) was hired to direct after Danny Boyle stepped down (or whatever happened), and Phoebe Waller-Bridge was brought in to spice up the dialogue on the script from Fukunaga, Neal Purvis, and Robert Wade (the latter two having been involved in writing all five Bond movies for Craig). Of course, it's Ian Fleming to whom we stand eternally grateful for the original characters.

For those accustomed to the James Bond cinematic formula, you'll notice quite a few differences - beginning with the opening scenes. Traditionally, breathtaking action kicks off the film; but this time a shift in tone and style serves up a tension-filled opening that occurs five years prior to the rest of the story. It takes a few minutes before we get the first true action sequence. Of course, we must keep in mind that we are dealing with a "retired" James Bond (don't worry, it's not like "fat Thor") ... in fact, there's already a replacement 007 and she (Lashana Lynch, CAPTAIN MARVEL, 2019) packs quite an attitude and skill set.

It's his old CIA buddy, Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright), who draws Bond back into the espionage game, and of course, the reason is to save the world (what else could it be?). This year's world-domination-seeking villain is the cleverly named Lyutsifer Safin, and he's played by Oscar winner Rami Malek (BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, 2018). Safin is a low-key baddie whose weapon is a DNA-altering chemical that's probably a bit overly complex for a Bond movie, and it's also a bit strange that Safin/Malek only has a few substantive scenes. For those who saw SPECTRE, you'll recognize many of the faces, including Lea Seydoux as Madeleine Swann, Ralph Fiennes as M, Ben Whishaw as Q, Rory Kinnear as Tanner, and Naomie Harris as Moneypenny. Also back for a terrific scene is Oscar winner Christoph Waltz as Blofield. The new faces include the aforementioned Lashana Lynch as Nomi, Billy Magnusson as Logan Ash, and Craig's KNIVES OUT co-star Ana de Armas as Paloma. Ms. De Armas brings a jolt of energy and some smiles to the proceedings, and it's a shame her appearance is so short.

It's unusual for a Bond song to win its Grammy before the movie is ever released, but that's exactly what happened for Billie Eilish's achingly somber title song. Oscar winner Hans Zimmer (THE LION KIING) delivers a wonderful score in his first Bond outing (you'll hear how he incorporates the Eilish song), and the cinematography from Oscar winner Linus Sandgren (LA LA LAND) is everything we could hope for in the action sequences (there is no shortage of bombs), as well as the quiet moments.

Speaking of the quiet moments, this is undoubtedly the most sentimental and emotional of all Bond films. Sure, we get the amazing set pieces, the crazy stunts, the awesome Aston Martin (until it isn't), the cool gadgets, the wisecracks, and the shootouts - but we also get Bond at his most reflective and personal. There is a line in the film, "Letting go is hard." And it is ... both for Bond and for us. So welcome back and adieu, Mr. Bond. Craig. Daniel Craig.

The film opens in U. S. theaters on October 8, 2021.

To summarise the movie, Weak. The final verdict - Get it over with and rejuvenate James Bond if he does return in another form. Overall, story's weak, dialogues extremely cheesy bordering B-rated movies, and the actions predictable. There is hardly any chemistry between Bond, Madeleine and their daughter, all seem forced and unconvincing. The only good thing happened to be the ending of the franchise, which hopefully is the beginning.

I, as an 007 film fan was hoping that the Craig era would improve and at least end on a higher note most of his reigns duds. This one is crass and classless, Bourne films make this look absolutely cheap, cheesey and just not fun to watch. It doesn't meet any James Bond ideals or threads and on the other hand offers cheap, tardy and completely confused storyline. If this is what Connery et al have come to then Thanks be to the Lord that this is the END! Utter Rubbish and a complete betrayal.

As a movie in general, NO TIME TO DIE is a fairly good and entertaining production. A bit of a mess in terms of story, compensated by well-arranged stunts, thrills, a decent soundtrack and a colorful cinematography. Some of the actors, like Ana de Armas and David Dencik steal the show. Others, like Rami Malek, are ridiculously overpraised. I would say Craig's acting is more "natural" than in other films, but the main problem in this film ruins the experience.

And the main problem of NO TIME TO DIE is... that it is a James Bond movie. And in that regard, any true Bond fan watching it will feel blatantly insulted. Straight from the worst gunbarrel sequence you'll ever see where the dots emanate from the Universal logo, the barrel itself is a generic chromed iris and there is no blood as a tuxedoed Craig fires his gun, unsuccessfully ripping of the pose of Pierce Brosnan in his four Bond movies. As if that wasn't enough, the main titles have more CGI than the tsunami wave of DIE ANOTHER DAY with pedestrian animations of Aston Martin DB5 cars falling into sand, mythological figures and Walther PPKs firing bullets simultaneously across the screen. And I'm just mentioning the somewhat "banal" things of the film, because if we go to how the arc initiated in CASINO ROYALE is closed, you'd wish this film had never happened and that Craig really slashed his wrists in November 2015 no matter how much Barbara begged him ("the only actor she can imagine playing Bond", yes, she said that!) and that the end of his run was SPECTRE.

The final minutes constitute a blaspheme insult to Ian Fleming, Albert R Broccoli, Louis Armstrong and John Barry. And to anyone who truly grew up to love James Bond 007. As I said before, name this character played by Daniel Craig something like Clifton Sleigh, Auguste Balls or Jacques Clouseau and I'd at least give this film a 3/5. But as a James Bond film... it crosses the line that much that it makes NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN and the 1954 TV adaptation of CASINO ROYALE two "official" Bond films and diminishes this one to the point we can actually compare it to the 1967 version of CASINO ROYALE - literally, two elements of that film are replicated here!

That said, I really don't care where they are taking James Bond from now on. This film made me want to put some flowers in Kevin McClory's grave and I really hated the man for years. If you still have some dignity, Barbara, please resign. Resign and sell the rights of the character to someone who truly loves James Bond 007 and make the kind of films your father did. The kind of films that care little about Oscars, diversity, drama, epic tales, and billions of dollars in the box office.

Yes, the classic four words are still there at the very end, placed as an afterthought. And they don't make sense at all.

Look up, look down, look out! Here comes the most insulting Bond of all!

Lazy, sleepy action sequences, a often bland villain and a some generic unnimaginitive action locations that could fit In any b level action movie.

The best part Is the quiet place, jurassic park forest when bond Is using some traps but that's about it. The movie also has a case of the feminist immortal ninja womens. There plenty of thousands of action movies out there with strong woman lead. But this Is bond.. seem to need help from charles angels. All im saying its to obvious.

There it is to an epic conclusion of the Bond franchise. It did not feel epic, it felt depressing. Why turn a great James Bond film and make him too human.

I don't know Hollywood, are you going to make a female James Bond movie from now on? So many females, felt like a start in this movie. So much potential.

I feel Daniel Craig can move on. The first half I liked but killing James Bond makes me feel like writers and directors are not fans of James Bond.

I feel so outraged by this decision. Very disheartening!

WHAT a fraudulent highjacking of your time... Daniel craig unasured and insecure making mistake after mistake. This was a parody of James Bond playing second and third fiddle to feminists and cowards. So the James Bond formula of a certain masculine charming presence on a mission who is always one or two steps ahead brooding between tension and humor has been disolved into a bumbling frightened weak idiot who dies and never needed to he just kind of does... on par with ghostbusters feminazi remake in 2016. Wow pure stupidity at work here.

It's hard enough to evaluate this entry to the franchise unequivocally.

Many things were interesting and enjoyable. The melodramatization of the story added to Bond's identity and life as a real character. The film definitely feels like a wrap-up, and I can definitely say that I will have no desire to watch any more Bonds when the producers start to run out of money and come back to this again (since the post-credit "James Bond will return" was a thing).

Aside from some of the CGI, the production was great, although the excellent work of Hans Zimmer, in particular, should be highlighted.

The run-time of the film is felt as the first half is quite crumpled and discourages the viewer to continue watching.

The action scenes are ranked from not interesting enough to Fast and Furious-style over-the-top madness. The scene on the stairs stands out strongly among them, made memorable by the good presentation and the excellent musical accompaniment.

The story itself can be compared to good Swiss cheese. It has such a gigantic number of holes in it that you often can't see the cheese itself from behind them.

Warning: the parts below may contain spoilers, don't read this if you haven't seen the film.

The characters and their interrelationships worked for the most part because their stories and character traits had already been revealed before. Consequently, the new characters felt redundant. Paloma, Nomi, Logan Ash were mostly wasted. What was the point of having Waltz in the film if Blofeld had 2 minutes of screen time is beyond me. Malek's Safin never felt like a dangerous man and looked like a fashion guru. His motivation past Spectre was unclear. His facility was over-stylized. And even though Nomi was supposed to be a successor to Bond, I can guarantee that we will not be seeing her in the next installment.

The ending was quite pleasant, though very obvious. The first time I saw it was in the game Wolfenstein: The New Order in 2014, and it was nice to see the same ending in a big-budget Hollywood production. The beat-up hero saves the world by killing the main villain, saves his loved ones and friends but is unable to reunite with them. He avoids the fear of death by immersing himself in his pleasant sentiments toward his loved ones and friends, knowing that they will now have long and safe lives in the new world for which he gave his life. It's conceptually the same (and almost visually).

Anyway, while I can't say I enjoyed this film the way I wanted to and lost any intention to watch the possible next chapters, I can't say that NTtD was bad.

What happens when people who don't understand or respect Bond get the rights to make a film? "No Time To Die" happens..

Months ago I had this feeling in my gut they were going to kill him off and I was sooooo hoping I would be wrong. Everything I heard about the production just made it sound worse and worse.. they strip him of his 007 title and then blow him up..?? Are you kidding me?? The #1 rule in Bond films is that he always makes his escape and they broke that rule.

Had this been a movie with the same script just not about Bond, it probably would have been a decent enough story but as a Bond fan my entire life, going back to the Sean Connery days, I think I speak for any other true fan by saying this was a huge middle finger to us and the creator. This film is an insult to the Bond franchise and an insult to Craig's time as Bond. What an absolute waste.

I'm in Italy, I want to visit my ex's grave, my current girlfriend doesn't mind, she's so cool. Oh no, what's that?, the giant tomb explodes as I am standing inches away from it. I am almost deaf, but other than that I'm fine, no scratch, apparently SPECTRE didn't send their best bomb team, but now I'm being followed, luckily I'm completely fit again juts minutes after a bomb exploded in my face. Oh, it must have been my current girlfriend, that's for sure, oh, I can't trust anyone, I'm so lonely, so melancholic, but first, I have to shoot these followers into pieces and then put my girlfriend, that treacherous be-hatch, on a train. Now I'm going to go fishing, oh no, Felix Leiter from the CIA is there with his intern, they want me to go on a dangerous mission, and so on and so forth, oh I am so lonely, iI think I want to start a family, kill the bad guy and save my daughter's dou-dou (teddybear) and strap it underneath my suspenders while a plethora of grenades rains down on me.

These were probably the most horrendous three hours of James Bond in my entire life. It felt like they wanted to film an analogy to the Brexit. Scriptwriters as divided as the British people about what to do with James Bond/ Europe, followed by an awful long process of nonsensical dialogue and ending in a mess that apparently nobody saw coming.

Worst James Bond movie in a very long time. Absolute cringefest, if you ask me!

While the end credits rolled I stayed in my seat and contemplated on what I'd had just witnessed, the death of a franchise. It was long drawn out affair - 2 43m of utter dross, capped off by the sacrifice of cinema's most iconic character on the altar of woke. James Bound will return announced the last of the credits, but the psychological effect of watching Bound die on screen has killed the franchise for me, and I suspect for lots of James Bound fans.

Look, James Bond simply does not work in the 21st Century because Hollywood doesn't have the guts to let the character loose. He once possessed the traits of a psychopath; a killer; and serial womaniser, but that is now considered a toxic mix - hence Bond has been diluted over the years. There is zero edge to him; an edge that has been missing since Pierce Brosnan was chastised as a 'relic' in GoldenEye (1995). This film is no different. Bond is still whipped of his characteristics and dull. The box ticking cast has been laughable during Daniel Craig's tenure. Oh, and Q is a hómósexual. This franchise is in the hands of the wrong people. I'm so glad this hollow and wimpy series appears to be over.

Never been a big fan of the Bond movies but they've always been good for a laugh, on the odd occasion they've also been "ok" action movies & that's primarily because they've never really taken themselves too seriously, that is untill the Craig era re-boot, yes re-boot because the Craig era Bond dismisses every Bond movie that comes before it, they simply don't exist in the Craig Bond universe, which is why it's odd they included the original tricked out DB5 in Skyfall & this movie as Craig's Bond never drove the DB5.

Casino Royale marks the start of the Craig Bond era, it's a reboot because Bond isn't 007 at the beginning of the movie, he has to earn his 00 status with 2 confirmed kills, unlike all the previous movies that merely slotted a different actor into the roles, Casino Royale is not a continuance of those movies, they simply don't exist in the Daniel Craig /Bond universe.

To be fair, all of the Craig/Bond movies have been top productions, great cinematography, decent action, amazing stunts, sadly the let down of all the movies is Daniel Craig himself, he's an excellent actor but he's got about as much charm as a damp squid, he isn't handsome & was completely the wrong choice to play the part, Craig plays Bond as many _ _ y actors play straight characters, Overly macho,too rigid, a straight actor would have fun with the character as Connery , Moore & Brosnan did.

No Time to Die is probably the worst of the Craig/Bond movies, it's dull, very boring in places & drags for most of the much too long 2 hours & 43 minutes, the action is tepid with the only standout scene being the tricked out DB5, which again should not be in this or any of the Craig era movies, Malik was also a terrible choice, more creepy than menacing.

Ana Celia de Armas Caso is fantastic as Paloma, would love to see her in more action roles, she stands out as the best character in the movie, while Lashana Lynch as "007" flops big time.

All in all "No Time to Die" is a snoozefest, an insult to the James Bond legacy.

If you watch till the end of the end credits you'll see " JAMES BOND WILL RETURN", well not according to this movie, no one comes back from being vaporised, in the immortal words of the great Dr McCoy, "he's dead Jim"

Welcome to 2021. Bond is dead! Can't have a "toxic" white male in 2021. Movies are dead! Creaitivty is dead! And actually having a brain seems to be dead as well. Thanks for ruining another classic, because politics are more important than actually making a good film. If I could give zero stars I would. So the one star is for all those people who simply were forced to do their job on the film. Yes I mean you gaffer #3 and assistant #4.

The film started well enough with some good action scenes and promise. But it just turned into a complicated mess. Plot difficult to follow and it was far too long on certain scenes. A female 007 and Bond exchanging pleasantries and being nice to each other just doesn't fit. The film felt like it was made just to prepare us for a future of female Bond movies. And Bond never dies. Yet, they kill him off in this movie. It's all very forced and contrived. Apart from the odd lively scenes and the beginning, I didn't enjoy this at all. By far the worst of all the Bond films.

We do not want politics in (what are meant to be) escapist movies. I don't see why that stance causes such upset. Oh am I not allowed to criticise a movie? I must just praise unquestioning, because of "all the hard work the creative people have put in to the movie." Hogwash!! Make a movie NOT tied to the Bond franchise (which is now damaged by the way) and do whatever you want!! Female 00 agent - fine! Go nuts! You don't have to destroy Fleming's legacy! But of course Hollywood no longer has the creative talent or will to do such. It's much easier to piggyback on existing franchises, you see. Less risk that way, what with 50 off years of movie history to leech off of.

Q being gay = POLITICAL! Bond dead = POLITCAL! (Problematic toxic male needs to go). Every line out of Lashana Lynch's mouth = POLITICAL. Sidelining De Armis' charachter in favour of more screen time & lines for Lynch = POLITICAL!! The marketing was a giant virtue signal too. Less a Bond film, more a perfect illustration of the sorry state that Hollywood is in when it comes to their ideology infecting every TV show and movie. This is the messy slop you get as a result.

Where to begin??? The long wait is over but if you are a purist Bond fan then prepare yourself for the ultimate disappointment.. The biggest shame of all is that the movie has a fantastic 25min pre-credit sequence that not only sets up a story with a lot of promise but gives us some incredible action and also performances that set a brilliant tone for a movie that completely forgets this set-up after the opening credits have rolled.

Every character in this movie is extremely well performed with 'much to do,' and that was a treat to behold.. but.. after the opening credits, the story makes the inevitable decline down the Purvis and Wade track to deliver something weak and almost uninteresting... As usual the writers have commited mortal sins by throwing in objects and vehicles from Bond's past to patronize the audience once again in a pathetic attempt to affirm to us that we are in fact watching a Bond film.. most notably Daniel Craig entering a scene in Timothy Dalton's Aston Martin for approximately 10 seconds of screen time..and Hans Zimmer throwing in both the main theme and love theme from 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service.'

Then we have the quick succesion of deaths and eliminations from Felix Lighter to the entire Spectre organisation and then Blofeld himself..all done in the blinking of an eye and the first major warning sign that the 'company' are quickly establishing the horrible foundation for the direction this movie will ultimately take...

After some back and fourth bickering between Bond and the temporarily instated 007 'Nomi' over who has office superiority inside MI6 we finally move onto the movie's villain by which time (1hr 45min approx) as audience members we've almost forgotten he exists and struggle to have a vested interest in his cause and plan for world destruction. A very weak villain who's cause is completely uninteresting to the point where we don't even care why his skin is so damaged...something they never bother to give a reason for anyway!!!!

And now we're into the final act... Bond and Nomi infiltrate his sub-standard lair, shoot a bunch of guards whilst making their way to the villains quarters where Bond stops for a quick and predictable conflab with Rami Malek whilst Nomi gets the hell out of there before the Royal Navy destroy the whole mountain with cluster bombs, all watched by Bond who takes a few of them directly in the face thus ending 60 yrs of a classic and cinematic icon and leaving his love interest (now a single mother) with his five year old son..

It's obvious that the film makers wanted to end Craig's era but in doing so they've destroyed the man..James Bond himself.. we witness James Bond die on screen..that's it..over.. 60yrs finished... and then they have the cheek to write 'James Bond will Return' on the end credits... errrmm how? By magic? Did he have a secret forcefield device that shields him from the full blast of a cluster bomb in the head?...

such a mess and such a disappointment for the purist James Bond fans across the planet.... sigh.

Ian Fleming will be turning in his grave if he saw what's happened to his franchise. I see a lot of people blaming Daniel Craig, it's not his fault the script is written for him and he doesn't look too old he looks great. So I'm 2 hours in to the movie and unimpressed it didn't engage me at all.

The first scenes in Italy and then Jamaica were true Bond style. But Bond is always a womaniser and the Bond women are always breathtakingly beautiful and die. I was looking forward to seeing more of Anna De Maras she's stunning and easily a Bond girl but now he's married and Madeleine is beautiful too but there's no chemistry.

Rami was a waste as a villain. Felix died wtf!

Then there's a female African American 007 my goodness you don't give a woman 007 that belongs to a male she should have been given another number. She's also a bit too filled to be a spy. Anna kicks butt in her short scenes.

Beautiful locations as always.

If this new Bond is a woman especially this boring one I don't think there will be more than another film, franchise over!

I can't believe they killed off Bond you never do that! Big mistake!!!

Sam Heughan should be the next Bond and 007!

Anyways eyes are half closed and super bored so sack whoever wrote this rubbish and do better next time.

Pros ...Ana Dr Armas was awesome . Action Good.

Cons .. everything else .. Minimum Violence No Blood Pointless annoying Black Side kick .. And The ending can not be fixed without replacing every character as the team know he is gone ..so The next one has to be a reboot so a New M a New Q a new Moneypenny because the ones now know he is dead !! FFS Bond Never Died before . Why now ? Franchise killer .......I've seen 25 won't watch 26 in a cinema.

Now that Daniel Craig has been utterly destroyed, like the masculinity he represents, be prepared for woke 007 next. Yes, it is coming. Why have a black female 007 in this movie if she is not to carry on to the next film. Yes, woke Hollywood is dancing on Bond's grave. He represents all they hate; strong masculine character that saves the day. They prefer the dopy dad and weak milk toast men as lead male character.

Hollywood never seems to learn. An all-female Ghost Busters was a flop as will a female 007. Hey, Hollywood, we already have and many strong female leads in spy type movies: Red Sparrow, Tomb Rader, Charlies Angles, etc. You don't have to destroy 007 series to cast a female spy. But they will and that is their plan. I am sure the next thing is to recast a female Jesse Born series.

Hollywood loves a bad idea as they live in their bubble sipping their soy vanilla lattes. This is coming because they don't have a clue what the real public wants.

Movie this down for spoiler alert.

But the ending sucked. There's not a chance Ian Fleming killed off Bond in his books. I shouldn't be CRYING at the end of a James Bond movie!! It also went on far too long.

As a stand-alone film, a one off which isn't part of a franchise or institution I would go e this film a 6/7/8 out of 10. It had a lot of drama and not much action, lots of lovely scenery shots, well made and some early good action pieces. The plot wasn't amazing, loose at points, lacking direction with a baddy who didn't really get off the ground, he was just there to slot around the drama of Bond and his retirement/relationship/child.... Don't get me wrong, as a film I liked that 'this character' had a child and a wife and he was fighting to save them but that's not Bond, Bond is queen and country! Not CIA, wife and child!!!

But it really was lacking, it didn't really gel, it was lacking in.... oomph... an overdose in drama and touchy feely, but no real Oomph... Everyone did their bit, acting was great, scenery, blah blah but it didn't sit right.

It felt like they should have stopped on a high with Spectre. Wait until the end, the final song for the credits just summed it all up for me, absolute cheese.... Not what a Bond film is, it had a Bond jacket on but everything about it was something else.

Anyway, if I look at it with regards to a bond film (note Bond and not 007 film), then I have a whole different thought and hence my rating, because ultimately... this is a Bond film...

The sheer arrogance of the writers Fukunaga to think that after directing 1 bond fi that he has the right to kill Bond off for all future generations of bond fans, to think he will be the last director of bond. I'm even massively disappointed in Daniel Caig whom was my favourite Bond, to be a part in the killing off of the character, it makes me see him in a whole new light, to think he has the right to be the last Bond, to think that himself must think nobody can do better!

Bond is a British institution, a torch to be handed down from generator to generation, bigger than the actor playing him and certainly bigger than the director who has been gifted the opportunity of putting an incarnation of Bond on the big screen. Fleming, Connery they all would be turning in their graves at the selfishness of this generation to think that they own the character and that they can kill him off as they see fit.

It's disgusting to think that my children and my children's children will never have the opportunity to follow this great British character.

Good on Danny Boyle for walking if he truly did it because he disagreed with killing off Bond, at a point in history where we need heroes they've killed off one of the all time British greats. They should have left it at Spectre and waited for a better director and writing team to introduce a new Bond and storyline.

If they wanted to create a New character then make a spin-off film, leave Bond alone, he is timeless and evolves with every generation just like the great British people do....

For the writers and directors of this generation to have the arrogance to think they've do e everything that can be done with Bond and to kill him off, for them to think they can do better than every future generation is shocking, if they cannot think of anything more then it's their limited imagination, they don't have the right to restrict future generations of writers and directors.

Every generation has had a take on Bond and every generation has been different, that's the joy of Bond, every actor portrayed a different version of the same character and that's what makes Bond, not 007, Bond great! The shaken not stirred, martini drinking Aston Martin driving, super spy who puts queen and country first!

As a Bond a 0/10, as a film in general an 7 (being massively generous), so meet in the middle and make it a 3.

This franchise just died for good for me. It was bad enough having a blonde James Bond now we need a black female one and a gay Q? PATHETIC. James Bond Will Return but I could care less. He also ies in the movie and leaves behind a daughter? Hahahhahahhahhah!!!! LAZY!

And James Bond Death # what ? He's faked his own death so many time... I think to keep his daughter safe , I'd say he pulled that one off again.. Pretty much sealed it up to Dr. No.. (which uses the Dr No dots.) This is more like Die Another Day than anything else and Daniel's worst of his 5. Lower than Casino Royale which I didn't think possible. Plot not the actors is at fault here. More or less it's a mess. And the Villain was sillier than the one in Quantum of Solace. Never really got to know him. Fairly sure if Blofield can get get out of an exploded building I'm sure Bond fake his own dead yet again. His girl and daughter can think of him as dead. Otherwise sorry Dan. George Lazenby's On Her Majesties Secret Service is still #1. Especially in the emotion dept.. I think his best movie is still Skyfall.

Quality: 3/10 Entertainment: 7/10 Re-Playable: 9/10 (it's a Bond film thats what I do) Total rating 5/10

Been watching for 37 yrs and this is a total mess.. True TWINE has not aged well hence why Die Another Day which is an homage to the 40 yrs of 007 isn't meant to be original. But like Die Another Day's silly car... the DNA stuff is all BS as well. And the music has gotten worse. David Arnold doesn't have much to do with the music now.. The title song is better than Casino Royale but only 2n'd worst. Skyfall is #1.

Genuinely difficult to even know where to begin.

First part,promising.. Struggled desperately to keep watching when the woke box ticking no personality 007 was introduced.(so tired of this nonsense shoved down my throat).

Boring characters 😴 boring story ,no chemistry love story snd to top it all kill Bond off. The final insult was to play ('All the time in the world ) music at the end which was taken from one of the best bond film endings ever about his only love and made no sense at all to use this.

These films don't know what they want to be anymore(is it a remake )? If so why do they refer back to the old films that don't exist in the time line(The Aston Martin for starters) Bond is dead and i don't mean in the story.

The only virus is the woke virus and it's struck again.

Finales are not easy. They come with the burden of closing things off in style but also not screwing it up. Even something as consistent a series as Breaking Bad played it decidedly safe, trading a fan pleasing climax that went against the grain of the show. (The Dark Knight Rises tried to do too much and imploded). All through, the James Bond movies starring Daniel Craig have treaded the thin line between him being fallible and being Bond-there is no image more telling of this update than in the first instalment, Casino Royale (2006), when he is stripped naked and tied to a chair, then have his sack of balls hit by a sublime knot of rope made by the villain played by Mads Mikkelsen; as there is no scene more classic Bond-and more erotic-than his close shave with Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) in Skyfall (2012), where he declares his preference for at least a few things old-fashioned; and nothing defined this no-nonsense middle ground better than when, asked if he likes his martini shaken or stirred, Bond said, in Casino, 'Do I look like I give a damn?' Read the full review on Film Companion.

I could go nit picky on this review but honestly I really appreciated some other reviews that summed up my feelings a lot better than I could. I will say though that this whole movie should have just been scrapped and then the series rebooted with Ana de Armas as 007. She was phenomenal. All the other actors including Lashana Lynch (the new 007) looked like they didn't want to be there. Ralph Fiennes was so unenthusiastic it was kind of sad. The opening action scene in Italy was one of the only highlights of the movie. Bond movies should go back to being fun and campy. This trend to make everything dark and realistic works with some movies but it's way overdone.

So I stayed away from spoilers on this movie for months till I could see it. Going in I knew this would be Craig's last Bond movie and I was ok with that. Watching the movie I actually enjoyed it until the last 15 minutes when Hollywood tipped their hand at the fate of our hero. As Bond puts Madeleine and his daughter in the boat you know he'll never see them again. I guess this is symbolic because we, like Madeleine and the girl, will never see Bond like he was again. Minutes later it's over. Bond is dead. I would have rates this film higher because the other 2+ hours was good but call me old fashioned, I'd rather see the hero ride off into the sunset rather than die in some contrived redemptive death. Hollywood is busy killing off all the heroes that my generation grew up with. I suppose it's time to say goodbye and simply relive the nostalgia of yesteryear rather than wonder want horrific reimagining of the characters Hollywood will dream up next.

RIP Bond, it was a great run while it lasted.

After a mixed bag of films, Daniel Craigs time as Bond comes to a dull finish. Casino Royale set a high bar that none of the subsequent films could reach. I know people like Skyfall but it falls apart the minute you think about it. Spectre and now this one are Die Another Day level bad. The action is dull, the script bland, the characters are nothing. I quite liked the idea of Lashana Lynch taking over as 007 but her character doesn't have much to do in this film other than be there. Ana De Armas and Geoffrey Wright are also wasted in blink and you'll miss them roles. The ending has no tension and the emotional pay off they go for feels unearned. We dont care about any of these bland characters. Fingers crossed whatever comes next does away with these badly tied together sequels and gets back to stand alone films that are actually fun to watch and that dont drag on for near three hours.

The good: Daniel Craig plays a good aging bond, some of the fight scenes are nice n' crunchy, the locations are pretty good, and the way it ends up for Bond is fairly emotional. The Meh: the dialogue is not good not bad - it exists, and the secondary characters are just sort of there. The bad: the overuse of over-the-top explosions and gadgets as a plot device (the gravity elevator was especially stupid... just use a rope), the generic nanobot handwaving of the bad guy, the lack of effort into developing any of the characters, the semi-weird pacing, and Lea Seydoux's acting. Overall, I guess it's right above Spectre. I hope they do a reboot, rather than try and keep up with the stakes-scaling and jump the shark.